The Aigoual.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23603 |
| Format | 14 x 22 |
| Détails | 64 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2017 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782851948168 |
The slopes of the mountain, under the strain of the storm, seem ready to detach themselves, like the tiles of a roof, the forest hisses and trembles like an immense framework.
The small column tramples for a moment in the snow. The bravest takes the lead to make tracks, each lowers their foreheads and, raising their shoulders, feels all their strength gathered. The fantastical world they believed in just now has vanished.
The wind hits, the snow rises, gives way, cracks, the slope is hard.
There is nothing left but the man and the mountain.
Since Roux the Bandit in 1925, the Protestant Cévennes have been the setting for most of André Chamson's stories. Aigoual, at the summit of these lands, has the value of a character: it becomes a symbol that crystallizes all the metaphors of the academic's work. This text, long unavailable, goes beyond a portrait of the “sacred mountain,” and transforms into a true initiatory tale imbued with wild beauty.
The slopes of the mountain, under the strain of the storm, seem ready to detach themselves, like the tiles of a roof, the forest hisses and trembles like an immense framework.
The small column tramples for a moment in the snow. The bravest takes the lead to make tracks, each lowers their foreheads and, raising their shoulders, feels all their strength gathered. The fantastical world they believed in just now has vanished.
The wind hits, the snow rises, gives way, cracks, the slope is hard.
There is nothing left but the man and the mountain.
Since Roux the Bandit in 1925, the Protestant Cévennes have been the setting for most of André Chamson's stories. Aigoual, at the summit of these lands, has the value of a character: it becomes a symbol that crystallizes all the metaphors of the academic's work. This text, long unavailable, goes beyond a portrait of the “sacred mountain,” and transforms into a true initiatory tale imbued with wild beauty.