Mo Abbas: L'homme, sans paysage
L'homme, sans paysage (engl: The man with no country)
Illus. by Jeanne Macaigne.
Le port a jauni 2024.
When Mo Abbas goes for a walk through Marseille with his imaginary turtle on a leash, he needs nothing more than a good pair of shoes, a notebook and a pencil. But what happens when the “asphalt poet” goes to the countryside? What is that anyway, the countryside? Nature? A landscape? As a great fan of nature poetry himself, Mo Abbas takes young readers and listeners along his whimsical paths to reach a lyrical river. He talks about searching and finding just the right words – and about the well-being, the ease and fulfilment that he, as a man with no country(side), feels when finding ways to describe Mother Nature with inventive word play. This colourful, imaginatively illustrated book contains no poetic ecology or ecological poetry: in essence it deals with the question of our presence in the world – full of humour, warmth and scurrility.
German-French Reading: Grade 7+ / basic knowledge of French welcome
French Reading: Grade 8+ / Language level A2+