Title : World News - Michel Serres - book

Summary :

Another of my friends lived with his family in the immediate vicinity of Kyoto Zoo; only a fence separated the cages from his house. Arriving before the sun rose, the earthquake, therefore, made its usual chthonic noise, comparable to the lowest notes of a great organ, accompanied by the banging sounds resulting from the collapses, falls, and destruction of all things, but above all, there, by the hubbub or confused hubbub of animals panicked by the shock: lions, gorillas, tigers, camels, reptiles, ibexes, vertebrates of all kinds and birds of all feathers roared, hissed, howled, bellowed, blatered, whistled, chirped, bellowed like a strange jungle returned to the natural anxieties of the earth. Will anyone believe it? Accustomed to their slavery and as if drugged with immobility, the animals did not leave the pit, cage, or aviary, even when the barriers were dismantled. They howled without moving, as if waiting for the gates to return, blind to their presence and therefore to their disappearance." In these News from the World, landscapes play as central a role as stories and people. Each story is born from the shared life of women and men with a country that amazes them, and which in return they enchant. Thus, believing he is writing a landscape, the storyteller tells the universe, and, in giving news of such a person, he tells of everyone.

• EAN : 9782080355430
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