aruna
06-22-2007, 12:47 PM
I have nightmares about this happening.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2108756,00.html
It's every urban writer's dream: setting up in a stone cottage in rural France and describing life among the local eccentrics. But when the natives take umbrage at their literary personas and turn violent, things can go terribly wrong.
Five farmers from the Auvergne countryside appeared in court yesterday for attacking the writer Pierre Jourde over his novel inspired by their tiny village.
Incensed by Jourde's depictions of heavy drinking, adultery, intermarriage, filthy homes and accidents with farm machinery, some locals say the novelist will never be forgiven. But Paris's literary elite is horrified by the tale of an acclaimed writer "attacked by his own characters".
http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,2108756,00.html
It's every urban writer's dream: setting up in a stone cottage in rural France and describing life among the local eccentrics. But when the natives take umbrage at their literary personas and turn violent, things can go terribly wrong.
Five farmers from the Auvergne countryside appeared in court yesterday for attacking the writer Pierre Jourde over his novel inspired by their tiny village.
Incensed by Jourde's depictions of heavy drinking, adultery, intermarriage, filthy homes and accidents with farm machinery, some locals say the novelist will never be forgiven. But Paris's literary elite is horrified by the tale of an acclaimed writer "attacked by his own characters".