Word: rumoring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...farm dog all agree that freedom, especially freedom from man, will bring total happiness. They escape to the forest, but as time goes on, their happiness wears thin. It is the rabbit that gives words to the principle which ultimately wins them all and becomes a rumor in the forest: renunciation of self, even of personal freedom and of life if necessary, to help establish "that law of love which should govern all the world, prevent it from shriveling like an old furze-bush...
What is remarkable about Rumor in the Forest is the fact that the characters are credible as animals while the reader himself almost subconsciously does the job of transferring their thoughts and words into the minds and mouths...
When the Germans came, she fled to a small village where she-wrote Rumor in the Forest, returned to Paris in 1941 and worked in the Resistance movement until...
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...