Evelyne Bloch-Dano
Biographe, essayiste, Évelyne Bloch-Dano est l’auteure, entre autres, des biographies de Madame Zola (1997, Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle), Madame Proust (2004, Prix Renaudot de l’essai), Le...
Jardins de papier : de Rousseau à Modiano
Auteur
Parution :
15/04/2015
Collection :
Hors collection littérature française
GARDENS ON PAPER - From Rousseau to Modiano
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Gardens on paper or dreams of gardens? Having already explored forgotten vegetables, the biographer Évelyne Bloch-Dano now moves from the vegetable plot to gardens in the work of great prose-writers: gardens are a reflection of the soul, a well-earned rest, an improving form of work, nostalgia for childhood and the dream of an ideal world.
From Rousseau to Proust, from Marguerite Duras to George Sand, from Colette to Modiano, gardens appear in novels as representations of the real world, but also as reflections of the imagination.
The charmingly erudite first section focuses on history and is devoted to different types of garden from the bible to English parklands; the second analyses precisely and perceptively their role in literary works.
Rights sold to Taiwan (China Times)
Gardens on paper or dreams of gardens? Having already explored forgotten vegetables, the biographer Évelyne Bloch-Dano now moves from the vegetable plot to gardens in the work of great prose-writers: gardens are a reflection of the soul, a well-earned rest, an improving form of work, nostalgia for childhood and the dream of an ideal world.
From Rousseau to Proust, from Marguerite Duras to George Sand, from Colette to Modiano, gardens appear in novels as representations of the real world, but also as reflections of the imagination.
The charmingly erudite first section focuses on history and is devoted to different types of garden from the bible to English parklands; the second analyses precisely and perceptively their role in literary works.
There is also an element of autobiography concealed within these well-tended wanderings: any lover of literature and any gardening enthusiast will navigate and decode and love this still life.
The biographer and essayist Évelyne Bloch-Dano is a prize-winning and widely translated author whose most notable works include biographies Madame Zola (1997, Elle Magazine’s Grand prix des lectrices), Flora Tristan, la femme-messie (2001, Prix François-Billetdoux), Madame Proust (2004, Prix Renaudot de l’essai) and Le Dernier Amour de George Sand (2010); but also Mes maisons d’écrivains (2005), the delicious La Fabuleuse Histoire des légumes (2008), and the acclaimed La Biographe (2007) and Porte de Champerret (2013).
Jardins de papier ou rêves de jardins ? Déjà exploratrice des légumes oubliés, Évelyne Bloch-Dano passe ici du potager au jardin dans la vie ou l’oeuvre de grands prosateurs. Après une promenade historique du paradis de la Bible aux parcs à l’anglaise, elle montre comment, dans les romans, le jardin est le reflet de l’âme, le travail qui rend meilleur, le repos mérité, la nostalgie de l’enfance, le rêve d’un monde idéal. De Rousseau à Proust, de Duras à Sand, de Colette à Modiano, il apparaît à la fois comme une représentation du réel et un miroir de l’imaginaire. Il y a aussi une part d’autobiographie joyeuse dans ce vagabondage cultivé : tout lecteur saura parcourir, déchiffrer, aimer, ce tableau naturel.
256 pages
Format :
135 x 195 mm
EAN :
9782234075702
Prix :
19.50 €
