From
Marées du Faou
to the
Breton Testament
and many other texts, Brittany irrigates and inhabits the work of Philippe Le Guillou.
His new novel,
Brest, of mist and fire
- first part of a triptych devoted to cities of which Paris and Rome will be the next stations - extends this Breton and oceanic inspiration through several paintings, several eras, several sources.
Because this novel is at the same time a family story (notably with the portraits of the author's grandparents), an autobiography and a loving evocation of a city.
Some would have chosen a more glamorous city than this one, but we do not choose our anchor points or our origins and the author of The
Seven Names of the Painter
(Medici Prize 1997) makes Brest the center of the world.
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If he celebrates its particular beauty - "
its neutral, almost extinct palette, yes this grayness which is not really one, this hidden sun which only asks to break through, this rain also which is similar...
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