Louis Pergaud (1882–1915)
Autore di La guerra dei bottoni
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La guerre des boutons: suivi de Les petits gars des champs et de: La vie de Louis Pergaud: Louis Pergaud écrivain:… (2011) 3 copie
Oeuvres de Louis Pergaud : 1. De Goupil à Margot 2. La Revanche du corbeau 3. Le Miracle de Saint-Hubert (1948) 2 copie
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Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Pergaud, Louis
- Nome legale
- Pergaud, Louis
- Data di nascita
- 1882-06-22
- Data di morte
- 1915-08-03
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Pas de sépulture (Corps non retrouvé)
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- France
- Nazione (per mappa)
- France
- Luogo di nascita
- Belmont, Doubs, France
- Luogo di morte
- Marchéville, Meuse, France (KIA during WW1)
- Causa della morte
- Mort au combat (WW1)
- Luogo di residenza
- Montesson, Yvelines, Île-de-France, France (1907)
- Istruzione
- Ecole Normale (1898|1901)
- Attività lavorative
- teacher
- Organizzazioni
- Armée française (WW1, Sergent puis Sous-lieutenant ,19 14 | 19 15)
Ecole communale de Maisons-Alfort (Instituteur)
Ecole communale d'Arcueil (Instituteur)
Ecole de Landresse, Doubs (Instituteur, 19 05 | 19 07)
Ecole de Durnes, Doubs (Instituteur, 19 01 | 19 05) - Premi e riconoscimenti
- Mort pour la France (1921)
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- Opere
- 36
- Opere correlate
- 1
- Utenti
- 598
- Popolarità
- #42,016
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 6
- ISBN
- 119
- Lingue
- 12
- Preferito da
- 1
The original novel was first published in France in 1912. Pergaud warns in the preface, that despite its title, it's not a story for children, because it's an assertion that such savagery could be heroic.
Louis Pergaud was born in 1882 and died in August 1915 aged only 33. Following in his father's footsteps, he had become a schoolteacher by profession, and was appointed to the village of Durnes (Doubs), in 1901. In 1903 after the death of both his parents in 1900, he married Marthe Caffot, who was also a teacher at a neighbouring village.
Pergaud had published his first poems in 1904. The following year he was transferred from his school because of religious issues when the Third French Republic enacted separation of Church and State, and this was the catalyst for him to move to Paris in 1907 where he worked first as a clerk, and then as a schoolmaster while also pursuing his passion for writing.
He was serving as a second lieutenant in the infantry on the Western Front when he became trapped in barbed wire behind German lines and was killed by French fire. Some of his work was published posthumously.
La Guerre des boutons begins in the melancholy of autumn, the children returning to school after working on the harvest in the fields. Father Simon at the door of the school is surprised at the punctual entrance of two boys who are usually late: he is not to know that there is an urgent meeting to deal with an insult from the boys of the neighbouring school. Lebrac quickly establishes himself as the leader who will restore their dignity!
As in Enid Blyton's stories decades later, the local policeman is a figure of fun and easily outwitted. However, it is harder to deal with the suspicions of their parents and teacher.
There is an innocence about this tale that charmed me. While the conflict between the gangs is really about nothing other than some insulting words, they fight with rotten apples, marbles, pieces of vine and branches, and the threat of a mother's rage at the state of their clothes. They have no access to any serious weaponry and the cruelty of social media is a long way off. But there is still jealousy and treachery culminating in Bacaillé's act of betrayal. (The brutality of their vengeance isn't a feature of the film, BTW, and there's no mushy boy-girl romance with La Crique and Lebrac either).
To read the rest of my review please visit https://anzlitlovers.com/2020/12/30/la-guerre-des-boutons-by-louis-pergaud/… (altro)