Poète Et Paysan [French]

By Jean-Louis Fournier

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"What am I doing here?
I have a pitchfork in my hand, the handle slick with filth - I'm shifting manure. The cows are watching disdainfully, and the only soothing thing is the gentle gaze of one heifer. My hands are spattered with slurry, they stink. Every five minutes, I run to the kitchen sink to wash them. Yesterday, I wanted to be Fellini, today I've become a toilet attendant for cows."
Jean-Louis Fournier can do anything. As a film student in Paris, he can decide he wants to overhaul a farm for the sake of the farmer's lovely daughter. The father had once been a fishmonger, he could back to the fishmongers.
He is a bit mad, this Fournier, and when he is in love - which, apparently happens quite often - he goes even more mad. Perhaps that is why he can write books for us?
Well, let's hope he stays in love a long time, then.

Before becoming a film director and creating cartoon characters for television (La Noiraude); before collaborating with Pierre Desproges on La Minute n cessaire de Monsieur Cyclop de; before writing twenty books that have made us laugh and cry (Grammaire fran aise et impertinente, Le CV de Dieu, Il a jamais tu personne mon papa, Mon dernier cheveux noir); before receiving the 2008 Prix Femina for his autobiographical book O on va papa? (Where We Going, Daddy?), Jean-Louis Fournier had another life. For a few months, he was a farm labourer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: French
• ISBN: 2234063248
• ISBN13: 9782234063242
• Release Date: November 2021
• Publisher: Stock
• Length: 162 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.3" x 8.5"