Readers of Jean Rolin know the taste for animals (beyond birds) of the author of
A dog died after him
or
The Man who saw the bear
(remarkable collection of chronicles and reports published in 2006) and they will hardly be surprised by the title of his new story:
Les Papillons du bagne
.
However, before going to Guyana in search of the unexpected links between these insects and the former penal colony, these are the beginnings of another book that we discover in the first sixty pages.
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Indeed, Jean Rolin decided to travel the Côte d'Azur on foot, from Bandol to Toulon, via the Villa Noailles in Hyères, in the footsteps of Katherine Mansfield until the profusion of writers who had lived or stayed in the region does not make him abandon his project.
It is also one of them, Vladimir Nabokov (passionate about
“hunting and the study of lepidoptera”
), who will serve as a common thread for Rolin's new quest, the real trigger of which was the vision …
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