Our bays and beaches tell a lot about us, our history, our relationship with the living. In his latest book, Praise for the beachWriter Gregory Le Floch pays a lively tribute to them.
As summer approaches, the beach is a red thread that runs through several editions of Jean-Philippe Blondel’s highly successful novel, Direct access to the beach (Éditions Finitude), which crosses the paths of the characters on a beach vacation, In the water’s lap (Éditions Arthaud), where the writer Chantal Thomas reaffirms her connection with water and sand, the image of the swimmer, according to her, captures the history of the female condition. His Praise for the beachGregory Le Floch offers us an erudite text, weaving together the history and sociology of this fringe, now endangered place. The writer confesses his intensely personal relationship to the shores, the only place where he can write…
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History of the beach
Madame Figaro. – “The first people to go to the beach are the crazy and the neurotic,” you write. What do you mean?
Gregory Le Floch. – Until XVIIe century, the beach is not frequented because it is a place of shipwreck, death. On medieval maps and…
Source: Le Figaro
