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The English Teacher, by Matthieu Pieyre: the master is there

2022-11-23T15:37:30.737Z


THE CHRONICLE OF ÉTIENNE DE MONTETY - A first novel written with a mastery that betrays the great scholar one imagines.


The director of the normal school of Loiret, Mr. Naudy, having identified the capacities of the young Charles Péguy, made him enter in sixth, by specifying:

“It is necessary that it makes Latin

.

To the narrator of The

English Teacher

, he was not told to take Mr. Wilder's lessons

.

The final year of a high school in the 1970s naturally led to taking English classes.

Nevertheless, his existence will be changed as much as that of Péguy.

Imagine this Patrick Wilder - one would almost say an aptonym, so much his name is for a class an exhilarating promise of freedom: blond beard, ephelides, an air of English romantic, and in the mouth a quote taken from a poet Victorian - or Cat Stevens.

A conquered class

Wilder or the master is there.

It arrives from the United States, which gives it an incomparable charm and appeal.

Oxford would have been more forbidding.

With him, a course is what Barthes says it should be: mixing knowledge and flavor.

Because his pedagogy is original, new, audacious.

Doesn't he say that the most...

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