Georges Brassens, author, type-setter, interprets contemporary, writing in the context of the winter 1954, the Chanson for Auvergnat . This one appears in an anthology published at Seghers in the Poètes collection of today. The text was born from the meeting of the Abbé Pierre which had just created the community Emmaüs and of launching a call to solidarity towards “without shelters”. By this song subtly moralisatrice, Brassens comes to give its support to him and to denounce the indifference of an egoistic and satisfied company. We will see that this text, writing, put in music and sung by the artist function like a Apologue, more precisely as a modern Fable insofar as it renews the spirit and the form of it.

Its significance

Triple searches symbolic system

One quotes by several times the vagrant stripped of very who does not have his place in the company: “Had Me”, “me ace given”, “my heart”. In each stanza, one finds a need expressed by this one. He cold, he suffers from loneliness and human heat. It is a lack, the topic of the fire expressed a little further occupies a great place. The second need being the hunger which expresses a need for love as well as the idea of meal and division. The third need as for him is that of loneliness underlined by the smile that it receives, it is treated like one out the law. The vagrant placed in several situation reveal his galère (painful and unhappy period). He falls under a chronological rate/rhythm, the past first of all is used with the made up past and the imperfect one, the present then in the last stanza the future. The topic of the search is taken again by three times. Each stanza are distress calls. One states the principle structural of the repetition, the company is indeed put to the test. Goods being Auvergnat, the hostess, the foreigner and the malicious ones, crunching them and crunching them. “When”, temporal subordinate clause, included in all the stanzas presents the circumstance of the acts of benefactor. The refrain of four worms is to some extent a thanks with the “goods”. The hero is always quoted with the second towards and crunching them with the worms six. The same formulas are repeated what shows the rigor, humor, the picturesque one and the irony. He has gratitude and recognition for those which they helped.

The topic of the gift

Only three characters offered their solidarity. The gift offered will enable them to return its dignity to him. It is not with each time a humble gesture or symbolic system. The modesty of the gift, indeed, wood brings heat, the smile a comfort and the hunger the love. The wood fire becomes thus a bonfire, the modesty of the gift gives an extraordinary character. One will be able to quote among the gifts, the metaphor of fire. Honey suggests softness and the light to him. The world illuminates thanks to them sympathy. These gifts are feeder elements. They are perceived like large gifts. “But” intervenes in each stanza and underlines an anaphoric return of this terms of opposition (modesty of the gift and the repercussion of the gift). The narrator appreciates these gifts, it is the generosity of the heart.

The shock of two morals

The narrator pays homage to the three givers. The excluded thinking company the narrator. These are two glances which are opposed, the logic of fraternity and the logic of the rejection. The marginality results from a morals social and religious, it does not incarnate a good behavior. Contrary to this vision of the world which makes it possible to the honest society peoples to give each other clear conscience.

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