Sunday, February 6, 2011

My Dogs Urine Was Black

Lectures à la maison de retraite


old woman or young woman? Who can say ( looking one behind the other and vice versa )?

Several volunteers from the library Lasalle will "read aloud" the text of their choice at the retirement home and raises the question: what texts to choose?

Georges Petit, on the forum " Reading High voi x" gives us these few guidelines:



An exciting choice ... and not so easy.

A good text:
Provides distraction, escape from everyday life,
resonates with listeners,
provides some "positive" comfort, philosophy, humor ...
Plait the reader.
What works well: (to me)
(a) Short texts good "story tellers"
(b) Extracts novels or stories about childhood, life in the "good old times ... "
(c) The storybooks different traditions ,
(d) Poetry: to "small dose .
What works less well and sometimes not at all:
The texts are too long (at least a good cut in the meeting or assembly )
Texts confused and stringy, too lengthy descriptions, too "intellectuals" too complex ...

EXAMPLES:

a) short texts good storytellers:
"Tales of the Woodcock "- Guy de Maupassant - The Pocket Book
The mending-That Pig Morin Hooves - Pierrot ...
" Letters from My Mill "- Alphonse Daudet-Le Livre de Poche
The secret of Master Cornille-Stars-The Cure-Cucugnan The goat of Monsieur Seguin.
"The Treasure of the Alpilles" Plon-Yvan Audouard
Hold Up in Perth-The terrible vengeance Euloge of Four Die-white stones in the palm of the hand-An accident incomprehensible.
"The tree of lies" - Marcel Scipio - Seghers
The tree lies pitchoun-Lou-The-deserter
Solitude of Mercy "- Jean Giono - Gallimard
Solitude of Mercy - The labor of Jofroi Maussan-
b) books that is easy to extract passages like little news.
"The blue cart" - René-Plon Barjavel
"The glory of my father"-Marcel Pagnol-Bordas
"The First Man - Albert Camus - Folio
"The Promise of Dawn, Romain Gary - Folio
" Small happiness "- Bernard Clavel-Albin Michel
autobiographical Series on Youth of the author.
"The shower of gold" - Henri Béraud-visibility
Childhood Lyon.
c) Tales of the different traditions:
"The tree of love and wisdom" - Henry Gougaud - Points Seuil
stories mother-son Four-Trunk-Nurudin the Franciscan-The three keys-etc.
Tales of Wise Jewish, Christians and Muslims "- Jean-Jacques Fdida-Threshold
The road to paradise-The heart of the mother's three brothers and camel-etc.
d) Poetry:
Anthologies and, for example:
"And why beat up my heart you "- Jean d'Ormesson-Folio.
Old Song's younger days (Victor Hugo) - The cherry season (Clement)
Roses of Saadi (Desbordes-Valmore)-Travel (Baudelaire)-etc.

All this is available at:
http://lectureahautevoix.blogspot.com/2008/12/georges-petit-que-lire-aux-pesonnes-ges.html

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