The souls ravaudeur

Born in 1925 in a Hungarian region of Transylvania then became Romanian, Lorand Gaspar is a humanist lost in Mitteleuropa. Deported during the Second World War in Germany, he fled to his release in France, became surgeon, neuroscientist and concomitantly a French poet dexception of expression. Historian, photographer, translator, polyglot, Lorand Gaspar is a traveler confines. The desert fascinated him. Judea was published in 1980. In this poetic prose in twenty-four suites, the writing is narrative and descriptive; it supports dialogued short passages. Quotations inserted in italics are drawn to the great religious texts, in hymns and prayers in fragments of historical chronicles. They structure and act dune writing counterpoint sometimes incomplete and near silence "silence in you through walls and seas" as if the tragic events that lencadraient, death dinnocents ambushed by the Jordan, crumbling the meaning of words, tended to detune the images. Yet the reader draws vivid nuggets and rolling in Jericho lévocation of the example: "The veil of women swimming in the evening dust. [] Laying on your stomach you get heat from the roof gently smokes in the extinction of the day. [] There in front, slow ritual ferments on the mountains of Moab. Lindicible tenderness fine hazelnut braided their slopes that bathe at this hour in a rustling of music. [] Mystery of the Judean twilight. " The other texts that frame this critical corpus Nont not always the same extent although "Aegean", dedicated to the Greek poet George Seferis and fishermen contains the "Journal of Patmos" full of poetic flashes: "In the absolute blue dune handle lentêtement lime ".