Rien mieux que le t�l�phone ne fait surgir les accents.
Un jour, l'auteur de ce livre entend ainsi la voix de sa m�re et d�couvre qu'elle a un accent...
Si l'accent lie profond�ment cette femme � la terre qui est la sienne, s'il atteste visc�ralement son origine, par contre, l'auteur-narrateur, intellectuel requis par la ville et les livres, constate du m�me coup que lui, cet accent, il l'a perdu.
Tel est le motif, le moteur de sa qu�te : il doit remonter � ses sources, rechercher son identit� ancestrale et culturelle et tenter de faire revivre cette m�moire du peuple, cette expression populaire qui se trouvait derri�re l'accent de sa m�re.

Une gigantesque balade dans notre pass�, c'est de la nouvelle histoire �crite avec le coeur sans cesse �mu, sans cesse touch� par une telle douceur et puret� d'�criture. Que c'est beau un livre vrai.

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Autodidacte, Michel Ragon est l’auteur de seize romans. Depuis le premier – Dr�les de m�tiers, paru en 1953 –, jusqu'au dernier, Le Prisonnier, en passant par ses grands succ�s – Les Mouchoirs rouges de Cholet, La Louve de Mervent, La M�moire des vaincus–, c’est toujours la m�moire du peuple qu’il restitue. Egalement critique et historien de l’art, de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme, il a publi� une monumentale Histoire mondiale de l’architecture et de l’urbanisme moderne ainsi que de nombreux essais dont L’Homme et les Villes et L’Art pour quoi faire ? Ses travaux d’�rudition l’ont �galement amen� � soutenir une th�se de doctorat d’Etat � la Sorbonne et � devenir professeur de l’enseignement sup�rieur.

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