... de roge e de negre... / ... de rouge et de noir... - Jean Louis Courtial

... de roge e de negre... / ... de rouge et de noir... - Joan Loís Cortial

Four short stories more full of pain than color. The culprit? Man or his structured whole: society, seen in all its savagery, when it becomes a "pack". Struggle, submission, constraint: suffering...
You'll find despair there. Hope, then?
A plane taking off for new horizons...
A wedding... a beautiful wedding in Rodez cathedral...

We see society in all its savagery in the media. What can you do, alone in your corner with your revolt? Joining others in activism, yes, but will that be enough? Alongside his activism, the author has also chosen to write, hence these four short stories:
- Buenos Aires: hope, despite everything, after the tragedy?
- La partida de tennís (The tennis game): a form of resistance in a prison camp...
- L'uèlh de santa Bernadeta (The Eye of Saint Bernadette): the muted violence of "ordinary" people against difference...
- ... de roge e de negre... (... de rouge et de noir...): machismo, road rage and animal suffering.

Sober, even elliptical narratives that are all the more vigorous for it.

4 bilingual short stories in Languedoc Occitan (pp. 3 to 51), followed by the French translation (pp. 53 to 92).
Texts by Jean Louis Courtial, photos by Laurent Tabouriech.

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The author:

Joan-Loís Cortial nascut al Vibal en Roèrgue en 1953 agèt coma primièr professor lo sieu papeta !
Una vida facha d’un pauc de tot : fabricant de quilhas de uèch, animator del sieu vilatge amb maites artesans, professor d’Occitan, d’Istòria e Geografia, escrivan e cantaire.
Compausèt de cançons. Las cantèt amb sa femna, la cantaira Rosalina, amb lo grop « Fai lum », dins los espectacles « Cridals », « Sul camin ». Puèi, subretot… las cançons pels enfants que « metèron lo fuòc » dins las escòlas de las doás regions vengudas uèi « Occitania » de 1995 entrò uèi.
Ara ? Totjorn de musica, fòrça teatre e l’escritura de novèlas e romans.