The Master of Enjoyment, followed by Gauguin in his last setting.
editions 2, 3 things| N° d'inventaire | 25823 |
| Format | 12 x 18 |
| Détails | 150 p., illustrated, paperback. |
| Publication | Geffosses, 2022 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782493820006 |
Like its hero, The Master of Enjoyment is an unclassifiable book whose wild beauty and modernity are astonishing. The Master of Enjoyment is Paul Gauguin. A legendary Gauguin, reinvented by Segalen, who tells us the geographical and spiritual adventure of this superb "outlaw" fleeing a bloodless Europe, who came to Polynesia to seek an earthly paradise with primitive colors. The Master wants to save the Maori race and resurrect the ancient gods. His hallucinatory quest on the island of Möuna-Roa, land of the Great Enjoyment, soon encounters the hostility of the colonial administration... The narrator, increasingly fascinated, investigating in his hero's last setting, will try to reconstruct his epic by rubbing shoulders with those who knew him well, such as the faithful Tioka or Sara, the beautiful vahiné, who does not leave him indifferent. But who was really the Master-of-Enjoyment?
Plunged into the humidity of the tropics and the darkness of a tormented soul, this unfinished novel by Victor Segalen (1878-1919), published for the first time in an accessible volume, is here prefaced and annotated by Colette Camelin, professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Poitiers and illustrated by Adélaïde Lebrun.
Like its hero, The Master of Enjoyment is an unclassifiable book whose wild beauty and modernity are astonishing. The Master of Enjoyment is Paul Gauguin. A legendary Gauguin, reinvented by Segalen, who tells us the geographical and spiritual adventure of this superb "outlaw" fleeing a bloodless Europe, who came to Polynesia to seek an earthly paradise with primitive colors. The Master wants to save the Maori race and resurrect the ancient gods. His hallucinatory quest on the island of Möuna-Roa, land of the Great Enjoyment, soon encounters the hostility of the colonial administration... The narrator, increasingly fascinated, investigating in his hero's last setting, will try to reconstruct his epic by rubbing shoulders with those who knew him well, such as the faithful Tioka or Sara, the beautiful vahiné, who does not leave him indifferent. But who was really the Master-of-Enjoyment?
Plunged into the humidity of the tropics and the darkness of a tormented soul, this unfinished novel by Victor Segalen (1878-1919), published for the first time in an accessible volume, is here prefaced and annotated by Colette Camelin, professor emeritus of French literature at the University of Poitiers and illustrated by Adélaïde Lebrun.