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Original Title:	Clochemerle
ISBN:	2253005630 (ISBN13: 9782253005636)
Edition Language:	French
Series:	Clochemerle #1

Clochemerle (Clochemerle #1)

Gabriel Chevallier

Mass Market Paperback | Pages: 435 pages

Rating: 3.87 | 512 Users | 73 Reviews

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Title	:	Clochemerle (Clochemerle #1)
Author	:	Gabriel Chevallier
Book Format	:	Mass Market Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 435 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2004 by Le Livre de Poche (first published 1934)
Categories	:	Fiction. Humor. Cultural. France. Classics

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Tout a commencé quand Barthélemy Piéchut, maire de Clochemerle-en-Beaujolais, dévoila à Ernest Tafardel, l'instituteur, son projet :« Je veux faire construire un urinoir, Tafardel. Un urinoir ! s'écria l'instituteur, tout saisi, tant la chose aussitôt lui parut d'importance. Le maire se méprit sur le sens de l'exclamation : Enfin, dit-il, une pissotière ! »Cette vespasienne, destinée, bien plus peut-être, à confondre Mme la baronne Alphonsine de Courtebiche, le curé Ponosse, le notaire Girodot et les suppôts de la réaction, qu'à procurer un grand soulagement à la gent virile de Clochemerle, sera édifiée tout près de l'église où Justine Putet, aride demoiselle, exerce une surveillance étroite. Dès sa publication en 1934, Clochemerle, chronique rabelaisienne, a connu un énorme succès qui ne s'est jamais démenti. C'est maintenant un classique de la littérature comique.

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Ratings: 3.87 From 512 Users | 73 Reviews

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The book started out well, and the cultured divisions of the haves vs have nots in town (and the straddling clerical class) were made clear. Maybe even cartoonishly so. However, as fun as the book was, it was hard to keep my interest just before the climax, and through the end. Odd that it happens this way with a book, but about 2/3 of the way through the allure for me flagged.

This is one of my all time favourites and, having leant it to somebody else (Paddy if you're reading this, it was you) i have not been able to find another without breaking the law. The synopsis of the plot is the fallout that follows the installation of a urinoir in a sleepy French village. The characters are beautifully observed and the description of events is mastefully understated. I need to find another copy so I can re-read this masterpiece fo French fiction.

Don Camillo in Burgundy.I was like 10 years old when I read this. You can imagine the mirth (read: guffaws) of a (male) pre-teener, reading the story of a mayor who wants to build a urinal against the parish church, and the plotting between parish priest and conservative parishioners!I want to read it again. Might not be quite so funny now, tho.

Clochemerle was written in 1923, depicting the daily life and petty rivalries of a provincial small town in France. I was hoping for some genuine flavor of what small-town life in France was like at that time, but have decided that I cant trust the depiction. The authors intention is to create a humorous story, and he largely succeeds. The characters are delightfully silly and self-centered and are good for some laughs, but I have no idea as to whether they are representative. I suspect not.

Like a Bordeaux red, this satire has aged well. The parodies, particularly of the politicians and the clergy, are as incisive today as they were when written. Sexual politics, though, have undergone a revolution since this work was written. Some of the attitudes towards women, particularly those held by the country police officer, would likely enrage modern feminists. If you like Catch-22, you will love this book; it is absurdity delivered deadpan.

Well, actually four and a half stars. I was wondering where it was hiding, that France of Oh, la la! The knowing smiles, the buxom wenches, young men and women with an eye on the main chance. We saw a lot of that in Rabelais, and a touch of it in Jacques Tati, but somewhere along the line, it got swept under the carpet. Maybe it was the dour expression of Jean-Paul Sartre that killed it off. Fortunately, before he or any of his confederates had a chance to do it, there was this French writer

Enjoyably entertaining, would be five stars if the tale and writing style had aged a little better. Not much attention devoted to individual characters; however, this can be attributed to the author's style of many, many characters telling a tale.