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Jan
Là-bas, août est un mois d’automne
- Author: Bruno Pellegrino
- Title: Là-bas, août est un mois d’automne (224 pg)
- Published: 2018
- List of French Books
- Monthly reading planning
Conclusion:
- It takes talent to write such a touching and subtle debut novel.
- The book is inspired by the life of
- …poet and photographer Gustave Roud. (1897-1976)
- He is one of Switzerland’s most accomplished poets.
- Pellegrino describes the ‘mouvement de va-et-vient’
- …the daily comings and goings
- …of two 60+’ers, brother and sister, Gustave and Madeleine.
- They have lived a solitary life on their family farm at Carrouge (canton Vaud).
- They both yearn to love and be loved each in their own way.
- Pellegrino has a keen eye for the micro cosmos of the garden.
- It is the world that
- …reflects the changing seasons of the character’s lives.
- Happy or sad, public or secret, healthy or weakening with age,
- …all is given the reader in an almost poetic style.
- This style ‘la belle expression“
- is an adornment and shield
- …it is like the enamel on a tooth.
- Bravo, Bruno Pellegrino!
1
Jan
Les Misérables Chapter-a-Day Read-along
Twitter: @burns_nancy
01-07 January: weekly summation of my thoughts.
- Nick Senger @ onecatholiclife.com is hosting a year long
- …read-along of Les Misérables by Victor Hugo.
- I have been reading French for the past 5 years
- I started with the 20 book by Emile Zola
- …the Les Rougon-Marquart series.
- That took me two years to finish.
- Often I try to find a really good book French Book
- … but even Goncourt Prize winners are lacking.
- Now I have decided to return to the classic Victor Hugo.
- I have never read anything about this novel, not seen movie or musical.
- This is a read-along with a writer I expect will not disappoint!
- I will follow the informative posts that Nick will publish
- …downloaded the reading schedule and
- …hope to finish this book by the end of the year!
- I will be reading it in French….nothing lost in translation, :)
- #LesMisReadalong
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