Guided by the memory of a woman with a snake’s body, glimpsed in the fall of 1976 in a shack at the Negreni fair (Transylvania), Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi sets out to explore the various forms of representation and expression found among the populations of the Three Cries basin (the Rapid, the Black, and the White), mountain rivers that border the Lake Country in the northwestern Romanian Carpathians.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
An ethnographic field study conducted over more than twenty years allows the narrator to recount his gradual discovery of the thought processes specific to the mixed populations of this ancient country. At the end of the book, there is a small anthology of texts by writers from this strange country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
But upon closing the book, readers may no longer be able to distinguish between reality and a certain fiction. They may even wonder who Emmanuel Raquin-Lorenzi really is…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":24252,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"nature":[1282],"statutdeslivres":[],"class_list":["post-24246","livre","type-livre","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","nature-recit-en"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n