Julien Raoult is a professor of linguistics and stylistics. No wonder he took a keen interest in the eyebrow. As a non-verbal language. Setting the tone, which is waved like a heavy or sharp accent, punctuating during questioning, exclamation, suspension. He who can say more. Activate the theme and copy the emotion. Starting his research with linguistics and literature, Julien Raoul quickly explored the representations of this touch of hair and its transformations over the centuries, be it in painting, cinema, politics, fashion… Thus we come across this lively and brilliant essay. , The eyebrow. A story of people and hairThe pen of Camus and Proust, Ronsard and Hafez, the Persian poet of the XIV century.e century singing these magical arcades with gusto. We’re entertained by a disturbing Jack Nicholson inverted brow and an Inspector Columbo/Peter Falk raised eyebrow…
Source: Le Figaro
