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Ludo
Dans la vallée du Geer, au début des années quarante, deux enfants nouent une amitié que rien ne pourra entamer: ni les fureurs climatiques, ni la folie de la guerre, ni le conformisme des adultes.
Premier volet de la 'biographie hallucinée', Ludo met en place l'imaginaire si particulier de Conrad Detrez, tour à tour baroque, cocasse et poétique, toujours émouvant.
Premier volet de la 'biographie hallucinée', Ludo met en place l'imaginaire si particulier de Conrad Detrez, tour à tour baroque, cocasse et poétique, toujours émouvant.
192 pages, Unknown Binding
Published January 1, 1974
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About the author
Conrad Detrez
17 books2 followersConrad Detrez (1937-1985) was a Belgian (from 1982 on French) journalist, diplomat and novelist.
Abandoning his theological studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain), Belgium, Detrez traveled to Brazil at age 25 and, while teaching French literature there, became involved in revolutionary politics. Deported by the Brazilian authorities, he went to Algeria and Portugal before settling in Paris in 1978. He became a French citizen in 1982.
Detrez’s first published works were translations of Brazilian authors and revolutionary essays. As his political disillusionment grew, he turned to autobiographical fiction. Ludo (1974) is a fictional account of his World War II childhood, and Les Plumes du coq (1975) treats the 1951 abdication of the Belgian king Leopold III. Detrez’s most celebrated novel is L’Herbe à brûler (1978; A Weed for Burning), in which he recounts with carnivalesque glee the fatal return of his disillusioned protagonist—who has wandered for years in South America—to a Europe sapped of its revolutionary zeal. Criticism of leftist intelligentsia continued to be a theme in Detrez’s later work. He also published one book of poetry, Le Mâle Apôtre (1982), and his novel La Ceinture de feu (1984), about a French scientist in war-torn Nicaragua, was translated into English as Zone of Fire.
Abandoning his theological studies at the Catholic University of Leuven (Louvain), Belgium, Detrez traveled to Brazil at age 25 and, while teaching French literature there, became involved in revolutionary politics. Deported by the Brazilian authorities, he went to Algeria and Portugal before settling in Paris in 1978. He became a French citizen in 1982.
Detrez’s first published works were translations of Brazilian authors and revolutionary essays. As his political disillusionment grew, he turned to autobiographical fiction. Ludo (1974) is a fictional account of his World War II childhood, and Les Plumes du coq (1975) treats the 1951 abdication of the Belgian king Leopold III. Detrez’s most celebrated novel is L’Herbe à brûler (1978; A Weed for Burning), in which he recounts with carnivalesque glee the fatal return of his disillusioned protagonist—who has wandered for years in South America—to a Europe sapped of its revolutionary zeal. Criticism of leftist intelligentsia continued to be a theme in Detrez’s later work. He also published one book of poetry, Le Mâle Apôtre (1982), and his novel La Ceinture de feu (1984), about a French scientist in war-torn Nicaragua, was translated into English as Zone of Fire.
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