Simonetta Greggio

L’ourse qui danse

The Dancing Bear

August 19, 2020
Novel
88 pages
140 × 180 mm
10 €
9782366245028
978-2-3662-4502-8

“Récits d’objets” collection

																Simonetta Greggio, L’ourse qui danse
																Simonetta Greggio, L’ourse qui danse

The Musée des Confluences, in Lyon, has launched a collection entitled "Récits d’objets" (Tales of Objects) over the past few years. It consists of asking a writer to choose an object of his or her choice from the museum’s collections to inspire him or her to write a text in the form of his or her choice. From May 2020, Cambourakis Editions will join forces with the Musée des Confluences to co-publish this collection at the rate of two titles per year.
Simonetta Greggio inaugurates this partnership with L’ourse qui danse, inspired by an Inuit statuette. In this extremely well-documented short novel, she imagines the meeting of an Inuit man and a bear. An a priori frightening confrontation that turns into fascination and deep mutual respect since, after confronting and hurting each other, man and bear will cohabit and survive one thanks to the other. A text imbued with the customs and beliefs of this population, which underlines the difference in lifestyles between Westerners and Inuit but also between an older generation seeking a form of communion with nature and animals and the young, much more distrustful and distant.

The author

Born in 1961 in Padua, Simonetta Greggio has been living in Paris since 1981. Journalist for many years for magazines such as Télérama, Le Figaro Madame and France Culture, she is the author of numerous novels, all written in French, including La douceur des hommes, Dolce Vita 1959-1979, L’homme qui aimait ma femme and Les Nouveaux Monstres 1978- 2014, published by Stock.

Noteworthy

First text from the Cambourakis editions of the collection “Récits d’objets”, in co-edition with the Musée des Confluences in Lyon.

An extremely lively and documented text, inspired by an Inuit statuette, conducive to the discovery of this culture, particularly its relationship to animals, as opposed to the modern and Western way of life.

A poignant text, of great romantic and documentary power, which evokes De pierre et d’os by Bérangère Cournut and Croire aux fauves by Nastassja Martin.

August 19, 2020
Novel
88 pages
140 × 180 mm
10 €
9782366245028
978-2-3662-4502-8

“Récits d’objets” collection