Cédric Gras
Né en 1982, Cédric Gras a suivi des études de géographie à travers le monde et dirigé différentes Alliances françaises dans l'espace post-soviétique. Il continue aujourd'hui de...
Anthracite
Auteur
Parution :
24/08/2016
Collection :
La Bleue
ANTHRACITE
Cédric Gras
Cédric Gras
In 2014, the mining region of Donbass breaks away from the Ukraine in order to rejoin Russia. The leader of the Donetsk Opera’s orchestra, Vladlen (Vladimir Lenin) stubbornly plays the national anthem. He is forced to flee to the banks of the Soviet Volga, home of his childhood friend Emile, who works in the extraction of anthracite, the coal for which the Donbass region is renowned throughout the USSR. The battered route traverses the steppes bristling with slagheaps and iron and steel works. They confess their disappointments to each other and argue about the pro-European revolution in Maidan, all the while trying to escape the disintegrating Ukraine. However, Vladlen will not leave without Essénia, his new love.
A vast contemporary saga about a tragi-comic road trip caught between civil war and anthracite mines.
Cédric Gras is 34. He lived and travelled for ten years between Russia and the Ukraine. Notably, before the start of the war, he created and managed the Donetsk Alliance Française in Donbass. He is the author of three books published by Phébus and of L’Hiver aux trousses (2015) by Stock.
A vast contemporary saga about a tragi-comic road trip caught between civil war and anthracite mines.
Cédric Gras is 34. He lived and travelled for ten years between Russia and the Ukraine. Notably, before the start of the war, he created and managed the Donetsk Alliance Française in Donbass. He is the author of three books published by Phébus and of L’Hiver aux trousses (2015) by Stock.
« À l’hiver 2014, dans une Ukraine survoltée, la foule furieuse se mit à dézinguer toutes les idoles communistes. Elle détruisait les plâtres, les granits, les bronzes, la fonte, les effigies, elle abattait les grands Lénine, les petits, les statues où il montrait la voie (sans issue). Elle cognait le spectre d’une URSS qui la hantait. Elle défoulait sa haine contre les fantômes soviétiques, taillant tout cela en pièces et veillant jusqu’à l’aube, comme si les sculptures avaient eu le pouvoir de se redresser à la faveur de la nuit. Et d’une certaine manière c’est ce qui arriva : l’empire fut ravivé. »
Entre guerre civile et mines d’anthracite, deux amis d’enfance traversent leur Donbass natal dans un road-trip tragi-comique. Une grande épopée contemporaine
336 pages
Format :
135 x 215 mm
EAN :
9782234079786
Prix :
20.00 €
