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l'ame de l'epervier
Redécouverte de l'oeuvre puissante de Jean Carrière, écrivain cévenol qui connut le triomphe en 1972 avec L'Epervier de Maheux.
Prix Goncourt en 1972, L'Epervier de Maheux fut l'un des plus grands succès de l'après-guerre. S'il a permis à Jean Carrière de rencontrer un très large public, ce triomphe n'a-t-il pas occulté une œuvre originale, riche et puissante ?
On a vu en lui le chantre de sa région, les Cévennes, mais loin de l'imagerie folklorique, Jean Carrière, servi par une prose flamboyante, est avant tout le peintre du temps qui passe, de la solitude, de l'abandon, de la blessure de l'exil, de la quête d'un paradis touché et perdu.
Les trois romans et deux textes autobiographiques qui composent ce volume éclairent le parcours de cet auteur racé et ambitieux qui sera une découverte pour beaucoup.
"La vraie littérature ne trouve plus guère de combattant aussi fougueux et aussi complètement engagé en elle."
Julien Gracq
Préface de Jean-Jacques Pauvert
Présentation et notices de Serge Velay
1038 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 2009
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October 8, 2013
This book contains 5 novels of varying quality.
1) Retour à Uzès: ****. A very nice nostalgic book. The hero emigrates to South America, gets homesick and returns to his native town and the house were he was born. He becomes a hermit there, and gradually slides into madness. Interestingly, the second part of the book recaptures the story, this time told from the point of view of the hero's sister.
2) L'Epervier de Maheux: ***; hard to believe this got the Prix Goncourt in 1972 and sold 2 million copies in 14 languages.
3) La Caverne des pestiférés: ***
4) Le nez dans l'herbe: *** an autobiography, using a 'fake' interview format. It contains some interesting insights on the author's rather original outlook on life (and, important in his view, death). Also his opinion on literature is worth noting: he claims (and shows) that all his books are based on his childhood which he tries to 'recapture' by writing.
5) Le prix d'un Goncourt: did not read it.
1) Retour à Uzès: ****. A very nice nostalgic book. The hero emigrates to South America, gets homesick and returns to his native town and the house were he was born. He becomes a hermit there, and gradually slides into madness. Interestingly, the second part of the book recaptures the story, this time told from the point of view of the hero's sister.
2) L'Epervier de Maheux: ***; hard to believe this got the Prix Goncourt in 1972 and sold 2 million copies in 14 languages.
3) La Caverne des pestiférés: ***
4) Le nez dans l'herbe: *** an autobiography, using a 'fake' interview format. It contains some interesting insights on the author's rather original outlook on life (and, important in his view, death). Also his opinion on literature is worth noting: he claims (and shows) that all his books are based on his childhood which he tries to 'recapture' by writing.
5) Le prix d'un Goncourt: did not read it.
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