The Horse Of Pride: Life In A Breton Village
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the windswept fields and tight-knit communities of rural Brittany, Pierre-Jakez Hélias grew up straddling two worlds — the ancient, Breton-speaking peasant culture of his forebears and the encroaching modernity of twentieth-century France. The Horse of Pride: Life in a Breton Village is a rich, deeply personal memoir that chronicles the rhythms of rural life with extraordinary vividness, presenting a world of farming traditions, Catholic ritual, oral storytelling, and fierce regional pride on the cusp of irreversible change. Hélias writes with lyrical precision and quiet authority, drawing from lived memory to construct an ethnographic portrait of a vanishing civilization. Originally composed in the Breton language and later translated into French to wide acclaim, this English edition — translated and abridged by June Guicharnaud with a foreword by Laurence Wylie — brings this celebrated work to new audiences. A testament to cultural resilience and the dignity of peasant life, it raises one haunting question: what is lost when a language and a way of life disappear forever?
Author: Pierre-Jakez Hélias
Format: Hardback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damage
Pages: Good
In the windswept fields and tight-knit communities of rural Brittany, Pierre-Jakez Hélias grew up straddling two worlds — the ancient, Breton-speaking peasant culture of his forebears and the encroaching modernity of twentieth-century France. The Horse of Pride: Life in a Breton Village is a rich, deeply personal memoir that chronicles the rhythms of rural life with extraordinary vividness, presenting a world of farming traditions, Catholic ritual, oral storytelling, and fierce regional pride on the cusp of irreversible change. Hélias writes with lyrical precision and quiet authority, drawing from lived memory to construct an ethnographic portrait of a vanishing civilization. Originally composed in the Breton language and later translated into French to wide acclaim, this English edition — translated and abridged by June Guicharnaud with a foreword by Laurence Wylie — brings this celebrated work to new audiences. A testament to cultural resilience and the dignity of peasant life, it raises one haunting question: what is lost when a language and a way of life disappear forever?