L'AUTEUR An engineer by training,
Jacques Grieu , a Norman
from
Le Havre, is an arts amateur.
He always wrote narratives and
poems, on his pupil's exercise
books, on paper tablecloths in
restaurants or articles in
magazines. It was already the
case at 16, when he was a
resident scholar in the
Chamonix valley. Then later,
when he was a mountain
infantryman.
But it is offshore, while
sailing during numerous
regatta throughout Europe,
that he wanted to satisfy his
competitive spirit. And, more
calmly, he cruises between
Belle-Ile and the Golfe du
Morbihan for the last 50 years.
He nevertheless had to wait
for retirement to find the
time to publish … The father
of 3 children and 8 times
grandfather, he continues to
practice ski with his family.
He is also an amateur of golf,
chess and painting.
Le Foin du Diable[978-2-35291-017-6] 20.00EUR 19.00EUR - 398 Pages 130 x 205 ISBN : 978-2-35291-017-6 Dilicom : 3012271090000 Roman Historique Collection Troubadour
Une description féroce du milieu hospitalier. Un cadre, prétexte à la peinture bucolique de la vie d’un village niché dans les pommiers de Basse-Normandie.
Sebastien, an old Norman farmer as smart as full of humour, is cheerfully dying of a cancer in the room 1367. The hospital of Caen is like a prison, a repulsive monster. The hospital, the second central character of this novel, after the village of Chaussemare where the narrator is born... Operated of the lungs and suffering, he tells to his room mate about his beloved village, where everything is authentic and where he would so much have liked finishing his days while he lives his last moments in this horrid medical environment. Sebastien is a gentle person with a soft heart, a bucolic poet, an incorrigible women’s lover. He confesses his unfortunate love affairs to his room mate. From Isabelle (in 1943), her attractive twelve-year-old primary school teacher, to Charlotte, his seventy year old neighbour in the hospital, his narratives make us discover his sensibility, delicacy and profound attachment to his Normandy. Certainly a sarcastic novel, but full of emotion and tenderness, which will go right to the readers’ heart. Even that of the most hardened.
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