After released his first novel in 2022 entitled “This father in which“, Patrice Cordier signs his second book with“Peasant fantasy“. A comedy that sets his decor in the world of agriculture and rurality. “A universe that I don’t know at all“, Admits the Dolois author, who unrolls a incredible story where a freshly named minister of agriculture, is kidnapped by four angry farmers and who have nothing professional criminals. However, the latter are determined to take out the Minister of the Vélons d’A problem to see more closely the reality on the ground. Inevitably, nothing will happen as planned!
The idea came after reading an article
Patrice Cordier spent eighteen months of work on this new book where his inspiration was nourished by several documentary research and reading a chronicle by Jean-Paul Pelbras in the newspaper AGRI. “The journalist responded to Périco Légasse who rented the idea of installing migrants in the countryside in order to revive it, I found this idea very utopian and offbeat of reality, and the journalist’s response was very funny, even acid. ” An idea that the minister imagined by Patrice Cordier, Marcelin Le Torky, will resume aroused a real outcry and pushing farmers to imagine this wacky expedition where everything goes into a spin.
Any resemblance to existing facts and characters who have existed would be purely fortuitous
Over the words, Patrice Cordier, who is well aware of writing around a topical subject, has carefully made sure to refer to any existing character, avoiding controversies, although the temporality of the text sticks to the files that shake the current French agricultural world: European standards, Mercosur and distance from public services. “” “There was no question for me to make a militant book! I wanted above all Make a deliberately offbeat book to distract“, explains the author who has done an important job to search the personality of each character. “I realized in the first feedback that some readers find, in the character of certain characters, people around them”, Indicates Patrice Cordier who voluntarily brought very few geographic clues to the “Magny Chenaies”, a fictitious village where the action takes place. “I did not want it to be a Breton or Franc-Comtois village, everyone will situate it where they wish!”
One thing is certain, the story that Patrice Cordier offers us reads very easily and the writing is very visual.
Peasant fantasy is available at Fnac de Dole.
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