François Sautereau - A hole in the fence
Wednesday, April 20, 2011
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A hole in the fence is a children's book by François Sautereau written in 1977 and winner of numerous awards, which presents an idyllic, bucolic ... limited by gendarmes guarding a strange fence.
The High People, a quiet, country setting, where there is a car that only comes from time to time to review the gendarmes, in the forest of Epnoi, there is a huge fence that is forbidden to cross. The children of the village, like almost any child, play against the ban, trying to get there, although out Beauras, a police issue, and men always prevent it.
Sautereau presents to children, the protagonists of the story. The protagonist is Grison, second in command of the gang, after Raclot. We are introduced to the group, and Grison adoptive family, who knows that these are not their real parents.
The play has a simple style, very suitable for children, but does not stop there. Sautereau not intended to take refuge in the false belief that young children's books and books without having to be technically or chicha. The story is simple, appropriate for a younger audience, but history has an intriguing twist, an obvious and critical reflection on the rural world facing the urban world. The characters are clear and concise, do not evolve in particular, although broadening of perspective that brings the story affects them.
Although I must admit I liked how it changed the Beauras out, how was your curiosity, how it evolved and how they decided to take active part in the events indirectly. I liked that side. And is that the characters all have their point, from the strange roadman Rafistole, the charismatic pastor Basile, through Robert, Beauras, Raclot ...
Perhaps what I liked least were some changes of time, in constantly alternating paragraphs paragraphs in the past with the present. I do not know whether any specific intention, though I were chaotic and little ... beautiful. He lacked the elegance that gives cohesion.
What more, no doubt, The Zone and the other side. The mystery, how it pinpoints a few, leaving taste and sense the environment, how it will show, how the information is given, keeping the tone of the story, but hinted at the hidden, sad and alienating the situation that includes everything.
Note: 8. It is a good book, a very good book, with the courage also to tell a story for children without condemning the absolute boredom and look disappointed when they get older. Well, yes, for all ages.
Thanks, Cris, for the recommendation and for your attempts to recover my lost childhood.
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