by Pierre Michon · Editions Gallimard · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782070305056
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«La Grande Beune» is a novel by Pierre Michon, published by Editions Gallimard in paperback (77 pages, in French).
A young teacher arrives in Castelnau, a village in the Dordogne near Lascaux, and becomes caught up in violent, archaic desires under the September rain. The novel contrasts the world of men, rough and predatory, with that of women such as Hélène, the innkeeper, and Yvonne, the beautiful tobacconist, in a setting that evokes the origin of the world.
The edition was published on 23 March 2006 in Gallimard's Folio collection, as number 4345.
For readers of literary fiction interested in contemporary French narrative and rural settings with a mythical backdrop.
Pierre Michon is a French writer. His first novel, Small Lives (1984), is widely regarded as a genuine masterpiece in contemporary French literature. He has won several prizes for Small Lives and for The Origin of the World (1996) as well as for his body of work. His novels and stories have been translated into German, Dutch, Italian, Spanish, Greek, Portuguese, Polish, Serbian, Czech, Norwegian, Estonian, Japanese and English. He won the 2017 International Nonino Prize in Italy.With an oeuvre consisting of a stunning confessional novel—Vies minuscules (1984)—and a series of Plutarch-like "lives" devoted to famous artists and poets, Michon commands respect as a sensitive author and gifted stylist who seeks to comprehend how we can make sense out of the irrepressible impulses and unavoidable failures that fill our lives. Whether he is charting the misfortunes of the lowly, portraying his own difficult rise from rural poverty and a broken family to the completion of his first book, or plunging into the destinies of Watteau, Goya, Rimbaud, or Van Gogh, Michon poignantly captures the essence of the compelling courses our lives take.
