Sirène rhapsodie - Sylvain Pattieu

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Taking as his starting point the mythical figure of the mermaid, who pervades the imaginations of all civilisations, Sylvain Pattieu conjures up the great historical legends with precision and humour, making them resonate with today's world. Between moving memories of his mother, reflections on the fate of the Inuit people and contemporary epics, he sheds light on trajectories that are often invisible and questions our relationship with history, art, transmission, different cultures and powerful women to expand our imaginations and give life to a true mythology of the present. After all, don't we have more in common with mermaids than we think?

Mermaids are everywhere in the world. Mermaids are commonplace. It's not just Ariel, Walt Disney's Little Mermaid. There's Mami Wata in West Africa, Yemoja in Nigeria, jiaorens in China, lobastas in Slavic countries, Iara in Brazil, LaSiren in Haiti, La Pincoya in Chile. [...] Mermaids are everywhere. And in the Inuit lands of the Far North, there's Sedna.

The author

Sylvain Pattieu grew up in Provence, where he was born in 1979 (in Aix-en-Provence). He has travelled from Marseille to the Camargue, via Arles, Manosque and Forcalquier. He now lives in Noisy-le-Sec (93) and works in Seine-Saint-Denis (teacher-researcher at the University of Paris 8). He has published several novels, including Une vie qui se cabre (Flammarion, 2024), Forêt-Furieuse (Le Rouergue, 2019), Et que celui qui a soif, vienne, un roman de pirates (Le Rouergue, 2016), as well as children's novels (Amour chrome, École des Loisirs, 2021), a collection of poetry (En armes ! L'Iconopop, 2021) and history books (Panthères et pirates, des Afro-Américains entre lutte des classes et Black Power, La Découverte, 2022). He enjoys working with other artists and transforming his texts into musical readings.