tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552327.post8187944932592866836..comments2024-02-27T10:09:54.105+01:00Comments on brittany: the mirror of landscape: Saints preserve usWMhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00538232588833342802noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552327.post-80520459459419272782018-09-02T21:16:18.905+02:002018-09-02T21:16:18.905+02:00Lucy, what a lovely surprise to hear from you. I s...Lucy, what a lovely surprise to hear from you. I shall be near Evran soon (I often spend time in Combourg and often walk the dog somewhere along the canal) and shall think of you happy in a new place. Do hope life is kind and stimulating. <br />I'm reading Ernest's Renan L'ame bretonne alongside Au pays de pardon: a more pragmatic look at Celticism perhaps.<br />regards, WMWMhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00538232588833342802noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29552327.post-89595396335717191082018-08-31T21:36:03.740+02:002018-08-31T21:36:03.740+02:00A coincidence, both that I happened to be making a...A coincidence, both that I happened to be making a rare wander through the blogosphere and fetched up here, and that I too am reading 'Land of Pardons' though in a 1920s clothbound version of a rather lovely Edwardian English translation, which I've had around for ages but only lately picked up to read. I'm not very familiar with le Braz; he seems to me rather ambivalent in his feelings for the Breton soul, on the one hand closely bound up and identifying with it, on the other distant, mildly horrified, arch and a bit patronising. I was touched and intrigued by his interpretation of Gradlon's abandonment/complicity in the death of his daughter in the drowning of Ys, among other things.<br /><br />I am sorry your summer has been hard. We find ourselves busy and sometimes challenged but very pleased to be in our new wooden house, (almost) on the banks of the Ille-et-Rance canal at Evran, and looking forward to exploring more of the area, but also missing the west, having put off, again, our next trip into Finistere. Your books are out on the shelves, among many others, and my request for dual French citizenship, in these uncertain times, is submitted and pending.<br /><br />Be in touch, if you would like. My e-mail, if you don't have it, is lucy.kmptn@gmail.com.Lucyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09764296105901909328noreply@blogger.com