Brigid's Fire and Other Winter Myths

Title: Brigid's Fire and Other Winter Myths

Author: P. Michon

Binding: Paperback

EAN: 9789028250802

Condition: Good

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Description:
'All things are changeable and the uncertain is near.' This final line of a medieval chronicle resounds as a refrain in the cruel, dark story trilogy Abbots. Pierre Michon (1945) evokes the world of the first generations of Benedictines who founded a thousand monasteries around the year in the inhospitable coastal area of ​​the Vendée, not far from the mouth of the Loire. Earth and water are not yet separated in that landscape, just as on the first day of Creation. The boundary between Christianity and paganism, between glory and destruction, between the spirit and the flesh remains equally vague in these stories.

The tension between the earthly and the sublime is characteristic of Michon's work. In the legends from Three Wonders in Ireland and in the short stories from Nine Times Over the Causse, the harsh Middle Ages are also the setting in which Michon depicts his tragic scenes. They are miniatures in which faith, hope and love are defeated and the summer of life gives way to the winter of death, futility and oblivion. The only solace is to be found in the bare, unaffected splendor of the writing, and the glimpse of truth that lies hidden therein.