WRITTEN IN FRENCH
Through some one hundred and seventy texts, this volume celebrates sport in all its diversity and shows how the physical feat is always consecrated by the literary narrative that transmits it. There is no beautiful gesture without the poet who sings it, no hero without narration, no...
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WRITTEN IN FRENCH
Through some one hundred and seventy texts, this volume celebrates sport in all its diversity and shows how the physical feat is always consecrated by the literary narrative that transmits it. There is no beautiful gesture without the poet who sings it, no hero without narration, no record without a witness. What would the first Games be without the odes of Pindar? The Tour de France without Antoine Blondin?
From the perfection of the body model in Antiquity to the tournaments of the Middle Ages, from the man of the Renaissance taking pleasure in the game to that of the Enlightenment measuring performance, from the sportsman born in the industrial era to the publicized champion of the contemporary era, sport has continued to invent itself, in techniques, practices, but also in art. It offers a very rich material which has inspired, in all eras, the best authors: through the power of the written word, they have constructed the legend and raised it to the rank of the great modern mythologies.
The first anthology of such magnitude to retrace its journey, this book reveals sport for what it is: a rich and fascinating cultural object, the mirror of our civilizations.
French
736 pages
Editions Bouquins
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