" Few houses where alcohol was not his victims, his slaves. There are those he has ruined those he maimed. Couples defeated, fortunes dispersed occupations dropped. "The words are taken from country lost (1), a novel by Pierre Jourde. They describe a village Lussaud, in the Cantal, and its inhabitants, about thirty people, mostly farmers. Some do not like reading these lines, fresco of life in the countryside, lines unflattering to the hamlet of Auvergne, where the gods are called "Alcohol, Winter, Shit and Solitude. "Then, they responded in their own way to the violence of words with his fists. Thursday these five people appear in court for hitting Aurillac Pierre Jourde and his family.
was July 31, 2005. The writer comes up with his partner and their three children in the village Cantal, where his family owned a house for three generations to spend their holidays. Two years earlier, the country lost output has widened the path of animosity in the village. Pierre Jourde he accuses of stirring up painful family stories and caricaturing its inhabitants, easily identifiable in the lines. Thus, "this young man of thirty, clever, talented, and had to be good enough no longer leads his small ship without even bad wine in the car: here it is transformed into a bloated buffoon and purplish (...) He lost his job and finds himself mender. "
" It appears too strong writing "
Then this summer day, the arrival of Paris is an opportunity for a firm explanation. Two women waiting for him outside his garage, they welcome him by insulting him. An old villager happens, the impactor. The writer tries to calm everyone down, then defends. New salvo of shots. Peter Jordan advises his wife and children, including a baby of 15 months, to flee. Other villagers get involved. insults, beatings, shoving. Jourde The family takes the path of capital.
The writer had already angered the Parisian literary scene that has stigmatized in the literature without stomach. For Country lost, he said he could not understand why it created the "reactions that are beyond words." "I feel everything very violently and as I have difficulty talking, it sinks into a bottomless hole and it shows too much writing," explained the novelist also university newspaper Liberation in September 2005. For him, "his novel is a description of the beauty that lies even in the most trivial things."
"The people and my clients mostly have been humbled by this book that reveals their deepest secrets, "said Gilles-Jean Portejoie, defender of four of the five defendants." Pierre Jourde has not sought to understand these people, says the lawyer. It was a work of ethnologist superficial, relating their life without seeking to pierce their real secret, without trying to fathom the depths. "For him, this case is disproportionate." And that is because it involves Parisian personality ", he considers a little bitter. It reminds one of its customers also complained of assault but unlike Pierre Jourde, Justice did not listen." Always two weight, two measures ".
(1) Country lost, Editions L'Esprit peninsulas, 2003.
was July 31, 2005. The writer comes up with his partner and their three children in the village Cantal, where his family owned a house for three generations to spend their holidays. Two years earlier, the country lost output has widened the path of animosity in the village. Pierre Jourde he accuses of stirring up painful family stories and caricaturing its inhabitants, easily identifiable in the lines. Thus, "this young man of thirty, clever, talented, and had to be good enough no longer leads his small ship without even bad wine in the car: here it is transformed into a bloated buffoon and purplish (...) He lost his job and finds himself mender. "
" It appears too strong writing "
Then this summer day, the arrival of Paris is an opportunity for a firm explanation. Two women waiting for him outside his garage, they welcome him by insulting him. An old villager happens, the impactor. The writer tries to calm everyone down, then defends. New salvo of shots. Peter Jordan advises his wife and children, including a baby of 15 months, to flee. Other villagers get involved. insults, beatings, shoving. Jourde The family takes the path of capital.
The writer had already angered the Parisian literary scene that has stigmatized in the literature without stomach. For Country lost, he said he could not understand why it created the "reactions that are beyond words." "I feel everything very violently and as I have difficulty talking, it sinks into a bottomless hole and it shows too much writing," explained the novelist also university newspaper Liberation in September 2005. For him, "his novel is a description of the beauty that lies even in the most trivial things."
"The people and my clients mostly have been humbled by this book that reveals their deepest secrets, "said Gilles-Jean Portejoie, defender of four of the five defendants." Pierre Jourde has not sought to understand these people, says the lawyer. It was a work of ethnologist superficial, relating their life without seeking to pierce their real secret, without trying to fathom the depths. "For him, this case is disproportionate." And that is because it involves Parisian personality ", he considers a little bitter. It reminds one of its customers also complained of assault but unlike Pierre Jourde, Justice did not listen." Always two weight, two measures ".
(1) Country lost, Editions L'Esprit peninsulas, 2003.
