L'Herbe à brûler

A Weed for Burning
Author Conrad Detrez
Original title L'Herbe à brûler
Translator Lydia Davis
Country Belgium Belgium
Language French
Publisher Calmann-Lévy
Publication date
 1978
Published in English
 1984
Pages 231 (French)
Awards Prix Renaudot, 1978
ISBN 978-2702102664
Preceded by Les plumes du coq (The Plumes of the Rooster)

L'Herbe à brûler (A Weed for Burning) is a Belgian novel by Conrad Detrez. It is the third volume of his "hallucinated autobiography" trilogy, following Ludo (1974) and Les plumes du coq (The Plumes of the Rooster, 1975).[1][2] Published in 1978, it was awarded the Prix Renaudot the same year and is Detrez's best-known work.[1][3] The novel is about a Roman Catholic from Belgium who, after years as a revolutionary in Brazil, returns to Europe and finds it enervated.[3][4] It was first published in English by Harcourt Brace Jovanovich in 1984, translated by Lydia Davis.[5]

References

  1. 1 2 Lefere, Robin (2001). "L'Amérique latine dans l'œuvre romanesque de Conrad Detrez". Revue de littérature comparée. 3 (299): 471–481. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  2. ↑ "Conrad Detrez". Dictionnaire mondial des littératures. Larousse. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  3. 1 2 "Conrad Detrez". Encyclopædia Britannica. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  4. ↑ "Notes on People". The New York Times. 21 November 1978. p. 8. Retrieved 23 July 2018.
  5. ↑ Evans, Jonathan (June 2011). Translation in Lydia Davis's Work (PDF) (PhD thesis). p. 236. Retrieved 23 July 2018.

Further reading

  • Jouanny, Robert (1993). "L'Afrique et le tiers monde dans L'herbe à brûler de Conrad Detrez". Textyles (Images de l’Afrique et du Congo/Zaïre dans les lettres belges de langue française et alentour): 301–308.


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