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RUMOR IN THE FOREST (152 pp.) -Madeleine Couppey, translated by Marguerite Waldman-Scribner...
...words are addressed to a pigeon named Grey-Flight, Muc, the pigeon, a dog and a cat are the chief characters in Madeleine Couppey's beautiful allegory, which has already gone into 58 editions in France. All the animals in Rumor in the Forest experience inner torture in their common search for the ultimate meaning of life. About them, the trees of the dense forest look on with understanding, and are themselves capable of being hurt and forgiving. Skeptical readers who doubt that a moving tale of love, renunciation and death can be brought off as an animal story...
Unschooled Prose. It is equally remarkable to get such pure prose from a young (28) woman who never got beyond primary school. Normandy-born Madeleine Couppey was born in poverty, became a housemaid in her early teens. At 16 she was washing cars in a Paris garage...
...Miss Couppey's only other book is Chansons pour Moi, a volume of quiet, unaffected verse. Rumor in the Forest's calm, allegorical reaffirmation of Christ-like love is all the more effective because it too never raises its voice...
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