Henri Gougaud

Henri Gougaud is a writer, a Poète, a Conte ur and a Chanteur French. He was born in 1936, with Carcassonne.

He directs the collections the Memory of the sources and Contes of wise the to the editions of the Threshold.

Work

Novels

Departments and Overseas territories, news, Julliard, 1977, then Threshold, 1991. Goncourt Stock Exchange of the news.

Discover how the small Jeanne made disappear her mother with the right in the middle from the living room all lights extinct. Learn how Tom Crèvecoeur removes his mistress coldly whereas he thought of getting rid of his own wife. Meet all these people whom one believed dead and buried and who, to disturb the balance of their close relations, reappear suddenly as so of nothing was not.

the Large one To leave , novel, Threshold, 1978. Grand Prix of black humor.

In prison, four companions of cell decide to escape by digging a tunnel. But beyond the sentinels for which it is necessary to escape, their fellows-prisoner, directed by a kind of ogre named Lavoir, are decided to ruin their project. Julien Berg, one of the four runaways, is charged to distract vigilance from Laundrette by telling the stories to him of which it is so fond of delicacies. He becomes little by little his preferred “storyteller” and multiplies accounts and adventures. Between the two men, a new exchange settles then: a friendship which mixes irony and tenderness, an escape at double entry where imagination is queen.

To find It fire , novel, Threshold, 1980. Price Jouvenel 1981 of the French Academy.

the adventure of the discoverer of fire was given to me in dream, one night of 1972 Whole was offered to me, the unknown world of Maïni, the bird protective Toumbo, the destiny of the Izahi young person to the catches with his Dagans enemies, the devourers is to say that this novel is not really one, and that in some manner I am not the author, but the scribe.

Bélibaste , novel, Threshold, 1982.

Guillaume Bélibaste is a character who always inspired a deep affection to me. It killed a man, by anger and bad luck, and became preacher heretic. In this end of the Middle Ages, Perfect the cathares was not any more that wandering mystical, but the purity of insane of God held them upright. Bélibaste did not even have this purity. It was dawning one the oath never not to find a woman, and was the following day perjury and in love. Hero in spite of him, he was a dunce of the heart. I love this man because I believe that, if God exists, it is in the questions and the pains of the dunces, more than in the answers of the wise ones.

Inquisiteur , novel, Threshold, 1984.

On the unfinished page in the middle of the book, Inquisiteur Novelli lute the date written with the fatty feather: “The year of the Lord 1321, nine of April”. There was less than three weeks. In this time, its heart did not pack in the name of Stéphanie, Solomon the Jew sold cloth street Jouzaigues, Jean Hongre was only one remote vagrant, Arnaud lived, and itself was going the every day to the Narbonnese Castle to condemn without much concern of the terrified criminals Eighteen days had passed, hardly time that the buds make green “Which lightning thus did reduce of to ashes this man who I were? he says himself. I died in truth, and ressuscity. But from where comes me this new life that I feel in this heart, in this head devastated? ”

the Son of the ogre , novel, Threshold, 1986.

the son of the ogre is a researcher of truth. He is in that the brother of Bélibaste and Inquisiteur. But it is not, him, a man of the Middle Ages: he lives in our time. In some train or waiting room, in a street of Paris or besides, you perhaps crossed it.

the Man with the unexplainable life , novel, Threshold, 1989.

At the end of the 13th century, between the good town of Toulouse and the forests of the country of Aude, the roads swarm travellers: soldiers of the Holy Enquiry, let us moinillons, rebellious, heretics. Among the latter, a man “with the unexplainable life”, Simon Garric. This student in right is thrown on the roads after the imprisonment of his mother, convinced of heresy. He will live in the vicinity of the wolves, in forest of Arch, will be liked of Fabrissa, “cursed” young woman, and will not however cease going to the continuation of Brown, its promised in marriage of childhood, its star.

Forwarding , novel, Threshold, 1991.

Montségur was formerly, on the summit of its mountain, like the last terrestrial door before the sky Peut-être those of the high mountain were believed in the hand of God. The fact is that one day some men went down from there with the unreasonable hope to release their people of these occupants and of these inquisiteurs who martyrisaient it Some found there death, others a new life that they had not dared to hope for, as that sometimes arrives in this strange world where they lived, and where we are after them.

Paramour , novel, Threshold, 1998.

Driven out of Avignon by the plague, Mathieu Trembles it from goes away on the ways, with the research of the author of a book which is its only wealth of this world. Does his/her sister accompany it, as well as the companion of this one, a troubadour? Extraordinary meetings. Mysteries. Wonders. Tests for the bodies and the hearts. Search truth, that of the Sky and that of ici-bas frays. A sumptuous and deep, also simple novel and as entêtant as love.

the Laughter of the angel , novel, Threshold, 2000.

Pico and Chaumet, two fraternal strapping men, from go away on the roads to the meeting of their destiny. Many adventures and of strange characters await them. An angel accompanies them and, as much as it can it, protects them. Figure unforgettable that this angel jubilant, full with indulgence for the weaknesses of the men.

the Voyage of Anna , novel, Threshold, 2005.

November 1620: Prague the Protestant woman is put at bag by the catholic troops. Anna, a maidservant, collects the child of her Master, massacred under his eyes. She does not know yet that its life has just taken a radically new course. Fleeing Prague with the small one miraculé, it will meet, in the storm of the war, the rage and the beauty of living, the secrecy of the forests, the madness and the love of unforgettable people. A novel rich in adventures and bounces (exists read by the author out of CD MP3, with the Livraphone editions).

Tales and news

Tales of the old mill , Paris, Casterman, 1968
Tales of Huchette , Paris, Casterman, 1973
the Tree with suns, legends of the whole world , Paris, Threshold, 1979. " The legends are what we have of more invaluable in this world. They are not a puerile grazing ground. They are not a manner of forgetting reality, but of nourishing it. To penetrate tenderly in them is to learn freedom, to test the sometimes painful happiness of vivre".
the Tree with the treasures, legends of the whole world , Paris, Threshold, 1987. " The myths, the tales, the legends of the world are at the bottom of us like the treasures of an extraordinary cave. Here is a new harvest. They come from all the grounds of the world. They were selected not randomly but for their weight of wisdom, their perfume of miracle, the simple pleasure or the delicious fear that sometimes they inspired to me. They nourished me and made good. If the heart of said to you, you serve ".
the Tree of love and wisdom, tales of the whole world , Paris, Threshold, 1992. " Not to change the life, but to help it to hatch. For this reason in the world these sometimes thousand-year-old accounts are which reached with the unsurpassable glory of works: anonymity. Because I am not the author of those which are in this book. I did nothing but revive them, revive them, to restore them, as others restore of old castles. I am unaware of which is the first authors. Moreover, that imports? They are in the world because they are necessary, like the air, light of day, the trees. "
the Bible of the owl, tale of fantasies , Paris, Threshold, 1993. 99 legends, blue fears, fables and imaginations of time when the winters were hard.
the Book of the loves, tales of the desire of it and the desire of him , Paris, Threshold (collection memory of the sources), 1996. " To attend the tales and the myths of the primitive people, it appears that the thousand plays of the sex were everywhere celebrated with equal of the most crowned demonstrations happiness to be. Our Occident, today, does not estimate them inspired any more by the devil, but that they can, or could one day, to like him God does not dare yet to think. For our simple ancestors, it goes without saying that the force to like takes its source in the Master of Creation, and that it is not merrier duties than to celebrate these tools which were given to us to serve it. The tales which populate this book are all, obviously, of oral tradition. Whatever evening the country of their birth, they says the same astonishment to be seen with the sun after the unsoundable shade, same amazement in front of the amour".
the Love the lightning, tales of the madness to like , Paris, Threshold, 2003. Forward one reads: “I have three preferences: the perfume because it contains the secrecy of the women, women because they contain the secrecy of the love, love because it is the only prayer of the universe. ” (Mahomet) love, insane love expensive with André Breton in all her forms: passion, delights and cruelty; under all the meridian lines, desire and jealousy. And always the traditional and untied feather of Henri Gougaud who carries us: to laugh and emotions, erotism and wisdom. An ode with the love, an ode with the woman, all the women.
Tales of wise the soufis , Paris, Threshold, 2005. “Which that you would be, come. That you would be an infidel, a idolâtre or pagan, come. Our house is not a place of despair. Even if hundred times you violated an oath, come nevertheless. ” (Rûmi) Henri Gougaud, revives a memory, that full with wisdom and teaching, soufis, a rêveuse and rich mystic of tales and legends as well edifying as delectable.
Collections of illustrated tales (these tales are drawn from the other collections):

Tales of Africa , Paris, Threshold, 1999
Tales of the Pacific , Paris, Threshold, 2000
Tales of Asia , Paris, Threshold, 2001
Tales of Europe , Paris, Threshold, 2002
Tales of America , Paris, Threshold, 2004

Account

the Seven Feathers of the eagle , account, Seuil, 1995.

Luís A. is not a character of novel but a quite alive man, even if there makes a point of remaining anonymous. This book tells its history, of its remote Argentinian childhood to the events which led it to the doors of France, where it remains today I wrote what it entrusted to me of its adventurous existence and its trainings. At the end, he said to me: “Now, that the wind carries our words, as it carries all, pollen dust, dead sheets. If they are only dust which they turn over to dust. If they are alive, that they nourish the life. ” And it started from a great laughter. Exist read by the author in format CD and CD MP3, with the Livraphone editions.

Collective or directed works

Words of Shamans , Albin Michel, 1997.

It is good to listen to the words of these men, to taste them, to like them enough to make them grow with the secrecy ourselves.

the Murmur of the tales , discussions with Bruno of the Room and Wild Isabelle, Desclée de Brouwer, 2002.

Henri Gougaud and Bruno of the Room were the two main actors of what it is agreed to call the “Renouveau of the tale”. It is with them that the oral Littérature left the anonymity of taken care country, the intimacy of the houses or the classrooms, to appear on the scene of the theaters. In this alive dialog, funny, truffle of anecdotes and reflections enthralling, the two storytellers evoke their personal route, the stages of their discoveries and the combat which they had to carry out to give again with arts of the word their noble letters. A knowledge is distilled between the lines - the secrecy that both knew to transmit to their pupils, and that they agree today to deliver to the reader.

At the end of the work, several new tales of Henri Gougaud, the accounts of Bruno of the Room, the historical and bibliographical elements essential and a glossary of the forms adopted by the oral literature during the centuries. A disc accompanies this book, with extracts of the large spectacles of Bruno of the Room and tales written and called by Henri Gougaud.

Various works

the Almanac , Editions of Panama, 2006. Where one will find, in addition to the saints of the day and kindness of the seasons, tales want some you in here are, historical telegrams, oensées of good quality, delicacies of mouth, remedies of ancestors and profusion of menus lighting knowledge.
political Poems of the troubadours , Bélibaste, 1969.
Montségur , report with photographs of Guy Caujolle, Bélibaste, 1969.
We in community , Bélibaste, 1971.
the magic Animals of our universe , test, Solar, 1973.

Pourquoi the fish is wants to live, always and everywhere, the first sign by which a religion is expressed? Why the snake symbolize does for the ones the evil, for the others fruitfulness? How the sphinx can, actually, be only one complex image of the man? Which is the significance of the dragon? In this astonishing study in thirteen illustrated chapters of old engravings, Henri Gougaud takes us along to the search of ourselves while raising the veil on the magic animals of our universe.

See Morocco , report with Colette Gouvion, Hatchet Realities, 1973.
Demons and wonders of the science fiction , test, Julliard, 1974.

Superman is a demigod, Barbarella a beautiful witch. Between the spacecraft, the flying carpet and the extreme wings of Icare, the form differs, not the bottom. The word science, known as Henri Gougaud, should not mislead. Science, in the modern tale, is only the current frame of perpetual symbols engraved forever in our depths, a transitory decoration for an eternal history, ours. It carries us in Space Opéra. But all at the end of the voyage, it is Sleeping Beauty which, inlassablement, waits.

See Egypt , report with Colette Gouvion, Hatchet Realities, 1976.
See France , report with Colette Gouvion, Hatchet Realities, 1976.
intolerable Memories , poems, songs, texts in prose, Ipomée, 1977.

One day by a slit of the paddle a black grape fell. It was gone from there travelling to the feet of the wall of eternity. And when this grape was crushed against hard eternity, of its sweetened blood I was born, me the shepherd of words… Extract of the shepherd of words .

the Song of the Albigensian crusade , translation, Delivers Pocket, Gothic Lettres collection, 1989.

This chronicle of the crusade against the Albigensians in the form of a chanson de geste in language of oc was hot made up in the first quarter of XIIIe century. The translation which one will read compared to the original text is the work of a poet. It restores the rate/rhythm, passion, the color of the Song. “Written… in the language which one used in the courses and the southernmost cities, this admirable, sound language, firm, thickly, which gets pleasure with only pronouncing the glowing words of them, to marry of them the rates/rhythms, the Song of the crusade is one of the monuments of the literature occitane” (Georges Duby).

Learn how to dream in 10 easy lessons , Syros-alternatives, 1991.
Vivre the Country cathare , report with photographs of Gerard Siöen, Mengès, 1992.
Cathares and eternity , test, Bartillat, 1997.

Cathare is an alive word. In him is a history, a thought, a heart, dreams and mournings, desires of infinite.

the Known as ones of Master Shonglang , Threshold, 1997.

Three characters: the Master Shonglang violin maker, the apprentice and Small Virtue. A workshop, the garden and the days which are passed between daydream, poetry and philosophy.

the Conference of the birds , adaptation of the text of Farid-ud-DIN Attar, according to the translation of Persan by Manijeh Nouri-Ortega, Threshold, 2002.

One is unaware of almost very the EC what was the life of Farid-ud-DIN Attar. It is known especially that it was one of the largest mystical poets of this glorious time of the Sufism where the divine search reached unequalled tops. Rûmi, Hallaj, Saadi were its pars. He wrote much. The conference of the birds is undoubtedly its most accomplished work. She reports the voyage of crested and about thirty her companions in search of Simorgh, their king. Innumerable tales, anecdotes, words of saints and the insane ones accompany them. “Lily this book, researcher, you will know where to go, known as the poet. Enjoy it a long time and you will be nourished. Because it has what to astonish you. You read it once and you believe to know it, but not! Read to it hundred times, hundred wonders new will amaze your eye. ” As much to say that the Conference of the birds is of these books which are enjoyed and are attended like feeder friends. It is of these companions whom one does not like to leave. The reason in is simple: the love is its religion.

Tales and receipts of the world , with receipts of Guy Martin, illustrated by Herve Tullet, Threshold, 2003.

Henri Gougaud the storyteller, and Guy Martin the chief of Large Véfour, invite us to the gastronomical voyage. From Afghanistan in South Africa, of Finland in Laos, the languages of the artists dance together and marry each other with relish. The tales reveal their feeder magic, the receipts exotic and greedy become accounts. Photographs, notebooks with the pastel illustrate the walk. Good appetite!

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