Bøger af Martine Le Coz

Martine Le Coz is a French writer, painter and long an admirer of Mithila art, a traditional women's art form in north India. Her recent accolade to these artists, Mithila, L'Honneur des Femmes, is here continued with forty two finely executed paintings based on the Indian Devanagari script. The paintings pay homage to the art style of Mithila with each letter a starting point around which Le Coz constructs an image of some aspect of Indian life and art. "Alphabets that are paintings, paintings that are stories, a book that opens up a window into Indian culture - that is 'Mithila Reverie' by Martine Le Coz." - Lina Vincent Sunish

Martine Le Coz est une romancière française et une artiste, admiratrice de longue date de l'art du Mithila, expression traditionnelle des femmes au Nord de l'Inde, en bordure du Népal. Le premier ouvrage qu'elle leur a récemment consacré après les avoir rencontrées, Mithila, l'honneur des femmes, trouve un prolongement avec ces quarante-deux illustrations des caractères de l'écriture dite Devanagari. L'ensemble est un hommage rendu à l'art du Mithila: à partir de chacune des lettres de l'alphabet s'élabore une image de la vie indienne en restituant son style si particulier. "Un alphabet dessiné, des dessins qui sont des histoires, un livre qui ouvre une fenêtre sur la culture indienne - telle est le Mithila rêvé par Martine Le Coz." - Lina Vincent Sunish

Mahisautha. A kingdom nestled at the foot of the Himalayas, the land known today as Madhubani. King Somdev's boon of a son, Jaybhardan, bears the weight of expectations of valour and glory. The prince is prophecy incarnate: destined to be the hero of an epic, with poets singing of his magic, of warring cousins, battles of conquest, and pillage. But Jaybhardan turns away. He attends to a different calling. He believes in the unity of all beings, willing and able to dedicate his entire existence to an aspiration to enlightenment. He questions quiet assumptions-how are some people high, others low. As the gods look on in awe, he leads a motley band of rejected souls to create a new society, where each life and leaf is cherished. Heralding heaven at every threshold, he becomes Salhesh, the King of the Mountain. Passed down orally since the eighth century by the Dalit community of Dusadhs, the story of Raja Salhesh inverts every convention of the epic genre.