Zermatten, Contes des hauts pays de Rhône.
(Contes et légendes de la Suisse, 1).
In stock
Isbn
205101759X
Now Only
€20.00
Regular Price
€25.00
Let us help you
find your book.
- Condition : very good, clean.
The true home of legends and tales is in the mountains: the density of social exchanges, the weight of fatality of natural forces, the omnipresence of the irrational and the religious have produced there the purest treasures of the imaginary. Born in Saint-Martin, in the upper Val d'Hérens, Maurice Zermatten did not escape the seduction of the storytellers of his childhood. So it was with fervour that, after the success of his first two novels, Le Cœur inutile (1936) and Le Chemin difficile, he drew on the popular Valaisan tradition for his Contes des hauts pays du Rhône. As free as the storyteller who varied the form of his stories according to his inspiration, the novelist has played with his art to make the transformation from the oral to the written word, adding to the naivety of the unusual situations the pictorial clarity of his style. The reader of today can only be charmed: he will hear, as in a dream, the celestial chime of the deceased bell-ringer, he will shudder at the anguished cry of the priest's cat, while the old-fashioned incense of the mountain vigils will hover over the allegorical high mass of the valley...
| Condition | Used - Very Good |
|---|---|
| Language | France |
| Illustrated | No |
| Publicaton Date | Jan 1, 1999 |
| Year | 1999 |
| Author / Cartographer / Photographer | Zermatten Maurice |
| Editor | Slatkine |
| First edition | Yes |
| Signed edition | No |
| Signed binding | No |
| Armorial binding | No |
| Binding / Format | Softcover |
| Size | 21,5 x 13,5 cm |
Write Your Own Review
