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Les Greniers de Babel

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Qui mieux que Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès, Prix Médicis avec Là où les tigres sont chez eux, pouvait creuser en profondeur l’image mythique de la Tour de Babel, dont Pieter Bruegel a peint l’une des représentations les plus connues ? L’écrivain entre littéralement dans la toile et à la manière d’une Usbek ou d’un Gulliver, livre le journal de voyage d’un archéologue qui pénètre dans la tour et gravit ses étages un à un. Au fil des galeries où foisonnent d’étranges épigraphes, il tente de comprendre le mystère de la confusion des langues, sans se douter qu’il n’affronte ainsi que son propre désarroi. Blas de Roblès nous offre ici une réjouissante métaphore de l’habitation du monde.

48 pages, Paperback

Published October 11, 2012

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Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès

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Jean-Marie Blas de Roblès is a French writer, poet, philosopher and archaeologist. In 2008 he won the Prix Médicis for his novel "Là où les tigres sont chez eux".
Born in 1954 in Sidi Bel Abbes, he repatriated to France with his parents after the independence of Algeria, he spent his adolescence in Provence, in the Var. He then studied philosophy at the Sorbonne and history at the College de France.
After graduating, he taught French literature in Brazil (1981-1982), China (1983-1984) and then in Sicily, and Taiwan.
From 1986 he became a member of the French Archaeological Mission in Libya and participates each summer for underwater excavations of Apollonia of Cyrene, Leptis Magna and Sabratha in Tripoli.
Since 1996, he devoted himself exclusively to writing.

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