by Natalie Zemon Davis, Jean-Claude Carrière, Daniel Vigne · R. Laffont · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782221007440
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«Le retour de Martin Guerre» is the historical essay by Natalie Zemon Davis, Jean-Claude Carrière and Daniel Vigne, in paperback (R. Laffont, 269 pp., in French).
A man appears in a village in rural sixteenth-century France and is accepted as Martin Guerre; the subsequent trial for identity fraud becomes a famous case. The work reconstructs the event from a historical and judicial perspective, and reflects on identity, memory and justice.
Volume published in Paris in 1982; includes bibliographic references and the script of the film of the same name.
For readers of history and microhistory interested in testimonies and judicial proceedings of sixteenth-century France.
Jean-Claude Carrière was a French novelist, screenwriter and actor. He received an Academy Award for best short film for co-writing Heureux Anniversaire (1963), and was later given an Honorary Oscar in 2014. He was nominated for the Academy Award three other times for his work in The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972), That Obscure Object of Desire (1977), and The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1988). He also won a César Award for Best Original Screenplay in The Return of Martin Guerre (1983).
