EP 48 : SAINT-LOUP - La colonisation mystique (La nuit commence au cap Horn, 1952)

OP – Episode 48: Mystical Colonization (Night Begins at Cape Horn (1952), Saint-Loup) In 1953, two weeks before the Prix Goncourt, Francis Carco submitted one last novel to the competition. It was Night Begins at Cape Horn by an unknown author who had chosen a pseudonym with Proustian overtones: Saint-Loup. The jury and the press speculated: was this a novelist who hadn't already won the Goncourt under another name? Or a novelist who couldn't reveal himself for some reason? Following an investigation, notably conducted by a police officer from the intelligence services, it was discovered that Saint-Loup was the pseudonym of Marc Augier, a collaborator who had been sentenced to death in absentia. Those who had supported him shifted their support. Pierre Gascar and The Time of the Dead (to which I dedicated the first episode of this podcast) would ultimately win the prize. Pierre Gascar's book is one of the most beautiful variations on grief I have ever read. It is honest, profoundly lyrical, and universally resonant. Night Begins at Cape Horn is also a serious, even devastating, text, brutally lyrical and crepuscular; it too possesses universal resonance. This time, it is not the almost ordered death in a German prisoner-of-war camp, surrounded by the heavy echoes of the Jewish people, that is being sacrificed, but the distant, inevitable death of the Indigenous peoples of Tierra del Fuego, whom 19th-century missionaries sought to convert, whatever the cost. For six decades, Saint-Loup followed the fate of Duncan MacIsaak, a British pastor, in what he called a genocide by divine right. Regarding this episode, he attempted to draw parallels between the curse that befell Cape Horn and episodes from Saint-Loup's own life. The rest can be discovered by listening to the podcast. Feel free to subscribe and share if you find the content interesting! #saintloup #marcaugier #jeanraspail #joseemperaire #lanuitcommenceaucaphorn #kawesqar #selknam #onas #alakaluf #yagan #genocide #indian #novel #literature #bookworm #bookstagram #bookstagramfrance #livrestagram #podcast ____________________ Chapters: 00:00: Introduction __________ Media Instagram:   / oublieuseposterite   Twitter:   / oublieusepost   Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/1REFNnn... Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/fr/podcast... Deezer: https://www.deezer.com/show/5614077 Podcast Addict: https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/420... Amazon Music: https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/eae... Email: [email protected] ____________________ Credits: Epidemic Sound Pexels Bing