Le Corps et la Terre - suivi de Le racisme et l'économie

by Wendell Berry

158 pages

Published April 3, 2026

About the author

Wendell Berry was a conservationist, farmer, essayist, novelist, professor of English and poet. Closely identified with rural Kentucky, Berry developed many of his agrarian themes in the early essays of The Gift of Good Land (1981) and The Unsettling of America (1977). His attention to the culture and economy of rural communities is also found in the novels and stories of Port William, such as A Place on Earth (1967), Jayber Crow (2000), and That Distant Land (2004).

Berry was an elected member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers, a recipient of the National Humanities Medal and the Jefferson Lecturer for 2012. He was also a 2013 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and, from 2014 to his death, a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Berry was named the recipient of the 2013 Richard C. Holbrooke Distinguished Achievement Award. On January 28, 2015, he became the first living writer to be inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame.

abridged from Wikipedia.

Reviews

[Sara · Rating 2 out of 5]

J’ai pas accroché du tout. Trop spirituel et daté un peu selon moi … la discussion avec bell hooks est assez intéressante. J’ai parfois eu du mal avec les parallèles qu’il fait entre l’esclavage, la suprématie blanche et d’autres types d’oppression car cela semble mettre tout au même niveau. Plus le côté «destruction de l’éducation, de la famille nucléaire » qui est un effet du capitalisme et qui rentre en lien avec le peu de soin et de connaissance que l’on a de la terre j’sais pas. Pas très concentrée pendant ma lecture donc ça se trouve je dis #nimportequoi.