Le Message Chedid

of martyrs: Saint Laurent toasted on his griddle or Saint Margaret emerging unscathed from the belly of the dragon. The earliest surviving example, the Vie de Saint Alexis teaches renunciation of the world and shows a life dedicated to God. If the message is predictable, it is conveyed with unexpected pathos. More intriguing still is the sophistication of its 625 assonanced lines, where rhythm derives not from the feet of Latin verse but from an entirely different principle: the syllable, which would

................ 15 31 49 70 96 112 140 171 206 235 Les lectures d’œuvres intégrales : corrigés Nantas (Émile Zola) .................................................................................................... L’Enfant multiple (Andrée Chedid) ................................................................................ La Ferme des animaux (George Orwell) ........................................................................ Un Secret (Philippe Grimbert) ........................