Editions: Pocket
date: September 2010
Number of pages: 114 p.
Cover: Illustration by Frederic Poincelet
Back Cover: "On Tuesday 16 aoput 1870, Alain de Money, intelligent and kind young Perigord , leaves the home of her parents to go at the fair Hautefaye the nearby village.
It arrives at its destination to fourteen hours. Two hours later, the crowd went crazy aura lynched, tortured, burned alive, and even eaten. Why such a horror is possible? How to quiet a crowd it can be grasped in minutes by a frenzy as barbaric? This ordeal recounted by step by step is one of the most shameful stories in the history of nineteenth-century France. "
" mass hysteria, Stations of the Cross and a little lesson victim of barbarism are the ingredients in this book that leaves no one indifferent. " Point
Comment: Everything is summarized in sentence of the Point. The novel is divided into chapters, all introduced by a map showing the route of the Cross performed by Alain de Money. Following a sad misunderstanding, the hero of the Prussian treaty. He then embarked on a descent into hell that lasted two hours ...
Story of a true story, this novel lacks Teulé thick. Which I usually am fairly partisan books of the author, I'm very disappointed. This "little lesson barbaric" leaves me an impression of voyeurism. Besides a clear lack of contextualization, Eat it if you want , perhaps because of its brevity, is still a story of some kind. And for once, the style of Teulé makes no difference. Moreover, we do not really understand why the author has rightly chosen to tell the massacre in particular. The novel does not answer any question and we might as well have read an ordinary newspaper article describing that claim killing ...
Story of a true story, this novel lacks Teulé thick. Which I usually am fairly partisan books of the author, I'm very disappointed. This "little lesson barbaric" leaves me an impression of voyeurism. Besides a clear lack of contextualization, Eat it if you want , perhaps because of its brevity, is still a story of some kind. And for once, the style of Teulé makes no difference. Moreover, we do not really understand why the author has rightly chosen to tell the massacre in particular. The novel does not answer any question and we might as well have read an ordinary newspaper article describing that claim killing ...
Read The village of cannibals of Alain Corbin was certainly more interesting. But let us see what the author says. Maybe will find there a good reason to writing this novel? I'm not convinced. To you give you an idea!
Interview with Jean Teulé for Editions Julliard
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