Cercle de Lecture June 2020

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Cercle de Lecture - June 2020


Date: June 1, 6:30-7:30 PM

Title: Seule la Mer s’en Souviendra by Isabelle Autissier

Level: Intermediate Level B1


En 1969, Peter March, bon marin, père de famille, amateur de défis, se lance dans l'aventure : participer à la première course en solitaire, autour du monde et sans escale. Pas seulement pour y inscrire le nom de Sailahead, le trimaran révolutionnaire que cet électronicien fantasque a construit de ses mains. Mais pour revenir en pleine gloire. S'inventer un destin. " Ici, je suis libre, personne pour me contrarier, pour exiger quoi que ce soit. C'est comme si je n'existais plus puisque personne ne se soucie de moi. " De déception en accident, seul face à la mer, sans autre repère qu'une conscience de plus en plus chancelante, Peter March fabrique le plus fascinant des mensonges jamais commis sur un voilier : il invente sa position. Le roman d'un tricheur ? S'inspirant de son expérience de navigatrice en solitaire autant que d'un célèbre fait divers, Isabelle Autissier raconte avec fascination l'affrontement entre un homme et l'océan. entre la raison et la folie.


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In 1969, Peter March, a good sailor, father, and amateur daredevil, throws himself into an adventure: to race around the world alone, without stopping. More than just to show off Sailahead, the revolutionary trimaran that this electrical engineer built with his own hands, Peter sees this as a return to the glory days and control over his own destiny. “I’m free here, no one can oppose me, order me around. It’s as if I no longer exist, seeing as no one worries about me.” From lies to accidents, alone on the high seas, without anything to anchor him except a shaky conscience, Peter creates the most fascinating falsehood ever told on a sailboat: he fabricates his location. Is this the story of a cheater? Drawing inspiration from her own solo sailing experiences and from a famous news story, Isabelle Autissier tells the fascinating story of the confrontation between a man and the sea, reason and folly.


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