Pierre Bergounioux: Un Limousin Entre Descartes et Bourdieu

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In this Subject: History ,&nbsp; Political Science
By this author: Liesbeth Korthals Altes ;&nbsp; Manet van Montfrans

Authors: Liesbeth Korthals Altes; Manet van Montfrans

Source: European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics, The New Georgics. Rural and Regional Motifs in the Contemporary European Novel. Edited by Liesbeth Korthals Altes & Manet van Montfrans. , pp. 125-149(25)

Publisher: Rodopi

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Abstract:

This article discusses two texts by Pierre Bergounioux (b. 1949), Miette (1995) and Le Chevron (1996), which, like all his work, are set in his native region le Limousin . In Miette a first person narrator describes the lives of three generations of a peasant family. Le Chevron is an autobiographical account of the relationship between the author and the landscape of his childhood. Bergounioux focuses on the fissure between two eras and two worlds. As one of the last eye-witnesses he examines the norms of an age-old, rural society which will not survive. A convinced determinist, he describes how he remains anchored in his native land and how he, as a cultural outsider from the despised provinces, struggles to gain entry to mainstream literature. These tensions are expressed by means of an individual usage of traditional topoi, and by a style in which the vernacular is combined with sophisticated literary language.

Document Type: Research article

Publication date: 2002-06-01