9781583226162
Memoirs of a Breton Peasant
Jean-Marie Dguignet; Jean-Marie Deguignet; Linda Asher
ISBN 13: 9781583226162
Publisher: Seven Stories Pr
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
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'[Deguignet's] tale is suitably harrowing, his memories of old customs are vivid, and his personality is an engrossing mix of genial picaro, Rousseauistic self-destruction and Kafkaesque incomprehension....There is no romancer or nostalgia in him, only a deep hatred for a society made by and for the rich at the expense of the poor."
David Coward, London Review of Books, 07/21/2005
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Book Description: Seven Stories Press,U.S., United States, 2004. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 235 x 155 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. A fascinating document of an extraordinary life, Memoirs of A Breton Peasant reads with the liveliness of a novel and bristles with the vigor of an opinionated autodidact from the very lowest level of peasant society. Brittany during the nineteenth century was a place seemingly frozen in the Middle Ages, backwards by most French standards; formal education among rural society was either unavailable or dismissed as unnecessary, while the church and local myth defined most people's reasoning and motivation. Jean-Marie Deguignet is unique not only as a literate Breton peasant, but in his skepticism for the church, his interest in science, astronomy and languages, and for his keen--often caustic--observations of the world and people around him.Born into rural poverty in 1834, Deguignet escapes Brittany by joining the French Army in 1854, and over the next fourteen years he fights in the Crimean war, attends Napoleon III's coronation ceremonies, supports Italy's liberation struggle, and defends the hapless French puppet emperor Maximilian in Mexico. He teaches himself Latin, French, Italian and Spanish and reads extensively on history, philosophy, politics, and literature. He returns home to live as a farmer and tobacco-seller, eventually falling back into dire poverty. Throughout the tale, Deguignet's freethinking, almost anarchic views put him ahead of his time and often (sadly, for him) out of step with his contemporaries.Deguignet's voluminous journals (nearly 4,000 pages in total) were discovered in a farmhouse in Brittany a century after they were written. This narrative was drawn from them and became a surprise bestseller when published in France in 1998. Bookseller Inventory # AAC9781583226162 Bookseller & Payment Information | More Books from this Seller | Ask Bookseller a Question |
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