WORLD WORLDWIDE FRANCE News Journal Update - (en) France, UCL AL #343 - Culture, Reading: Thierry Maricourt, "A rage for reading: young Michel Ragon" (ca, de, fr, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

 Editions de l'Échappée are launching a new collection dedicated to the

history of publishing: "The People of the Book", dedicated to all those
ignored people who very often remain in the shadows. ----- Editions de
l'Échappée are launching a new collection dedicated to the history of
publishing: "The People of the Book", dedicated to all those ignored
people who very often remain in the shadows. ---- not the very type of
the little-known writer. The Memory of the Defeated and The Red
Handkerchiefs of Cholet place him among the recognized authors. His
place in this collection is less due to his fame than to his life. As an
autodidact, nothing destined him for literature.

There were many obstacles to overcome and as such, it constitutes a
unique journey reference. Born in 1924, he spent his entire childhood in
Vendée in a miserable peasant family. Orphaned by his father at the age
of 8, at the age of 14 he went to Nantes where he worked in several
professions without the slightest connection with the world of books.
However, "the intellectual environment is not necessarily antagonistic
with the proletarian environment. The world of books is not harmful to
the world of work.»

For him, reading is thinking, and thinking is knowing. He "had only one
desire, practically unrealizable, completely unreasonable, utopian: to
be a writer.» Thierry Maricourt tells us in this biography the
friendship that linked him to the writer. Their paths crossed from
Vendée to Paris and Nantes. His writing evokes in turn the youth of
Michel Ragon, the artistic, literary and anarchist circles he
frequented. This one belonged to the people's writers.

Due to these libertarian meetings with Daniel Guérin, Gaston Leval,
Georges Conchon and even Rirette Maitrejean and Brassens, he became a
reference in libertarian culture. If he was not a theoretician of
anarchist thought, his approach was made under the sign of friendship
and loyalty to his libertarian convictions. He was also a historian of
modern art and architecture.

Let's wish this collection good luck!

Dominique Sureau (UCL Angers)

https://www.unioncommunistelibertaire.org/?Lire-Thierry-Maricourt-Une-rage-de-lire-le-jeune-Michel-Ragon
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