by Pierre Jakez Hélias · Tapa dura · ISBN 9782259020176
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«Le quêteur de mémoire» is Pierre Jakez Hélias's memoir about Breton culture, in hardcover.
Pierre Jakez Hélias recalls forty years of research on the myths and Breton civilization, combining his experience as a broadcaster, teacher and writer with the study of Brittany's intellectual life. The book addresses folklore, the Breton language and its political implications, as well as Hélias's biography as a witness to that culture.
1990 edition of the Terre humaine collection, published in Paris. Includes bibliographic references and an index.
For readers interested in Breton culture, folklore and the intellectual history of France in the twentieth century.
Pêr-Jakez Helias, baptised Pierre-Jacques Hélias, nom de plume Pierre-Jakez Hélias (1914–1995) was a Breton stage actor, journalist, author, poet, and writer for radio who worked in the French and Breton languages. For many years he directed a weekly radio programme in the Breton language and co-founded an Eisteddfod-inspired summer festival at Quimper, France, which became the Festival de Cornouaille.
