THE FOUR MEN

EAN : 9791041805013

BELLOC HILAIRE

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EAN : 9791041805013

Paru le : 25 juil. 2023

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EAN13 : 9791041805013
Réf. éditeur : 292553
Date Parution : 25 juil. 2023
Disponibilite : Disponible
Barème de remise : NS
Nombre de pages : 214
Format : 1.20 x 14.80 x 21.00 cm
Poids : 284gr

Résumé

Résumé : A "Farrago" is a "confused mixture," an apt subtitle for this 1911 semi-fictional travelogue and love song to Hilaire Belloc's home County of Sussex. It is full to bursting with humor, songs (often including scores), speeches, drawings, fables, digressions, poetry, and legends, often partially or wholly invented, but all in service of Belloc's deep belief in "the character of enduring things." During a period of five days in 1902, including All-Halloween, All-Hallows' Day, and ending on the Day of the Dead, Belloc walks from the east end of the County of Sussex to the west, finally arriving at his boyhood home. "Four Men," each an aspect of Belloc's personality, travel together on this walk: Myself, Grizzlebeard, the Sailor, and the Poet. They tell tales, sermonize, versify, feast, and sing as they go, holding forth on subjects such as: St. Dunstan pulling the Devil by the nose; how all animals' hides are covered in hair (and why Myself is glad that he is not); the Pelagian Heresy (as related in song); all the inns of the world and their ale (and how Alexander fought his way to Indus to seek a certain one); tales of each man's first love (the Sailor has a bit of trouble with his); and finally ending in a fine piece of verse on "the way in which our land and we mix up together and are part of the same thing."
Biographie : Joseph Hilaire Pierre René Belloc (, 27 July 1870 - 16 July 1953) was a Franco-English writer and historian of the early 20th century. Belloc was also an orator, poet, sailor, satirist, writer of letters, soldier, and political activist. His Catholic faith had a strong effect on his works.