BARTABAS Les cogne-trottoirs (Gallimard)
A young mute girl runs away from her uncle?s house after setting it on fire, and takes refuge in the forest, accompanied by her donkey.
One encounter leads to another, and they end up in Paris with a troupe of acrobats, the Baladins du Temple. From Place Saint-Eustache to Montparnasse, under the leadership of the Admiral, the members of this merry tribe of misfits put on street shows, panhandle and defy the bourgeois order. Renamed Cascabelle, the teenager takes in their confidences, discovers freedom, and shares their shattered lives, their excesses, their dreams and their sorrows...
A young mute girl runs away from her uncle?s house after setting it on fire, and takes refuge in the forest, accompanied by her donkey.
One encounter leads to another, and they end up in Paris with a troupe of acrobats, the Baladins du Temple. From Place Saint-Eustache to Montparnasse, under the leadership of the Admiral, the members of this merry tribe of misfits put on street shows, panhandle and defy the bourgeois order. Renamed Cascabelle, the teenager takes in their confidences, discovers freedom, and shares their shattered lives, their excesses, their dreams and their sorrows...
