Abstract
Why recount the world if not to restore it each time and transpose it ? Even the cruellest works carry within them, by the very fact of their writing, an act of generosity. Writing to repair, to patch up, to put amputations back together and give a voice back to the mute. An act of kindness. Taking the verb to restore literally, discover what restoration in painting can reveal in the act of writing, and how it comes very close to the act of translating, which is, in writing, the other side of generosity.
