Hans Silvester - x Pétanque et Jeu Provençal - Book
Boule reedition
Spectacular images of "joueurs de boules" in Provence, captured by the eye of Hans Silvester in the fifties and sixties. Retour De Voyage guarantees a great moment of pleasure to look at these photographs and read Yvan Audouard’s truculent comments.
Photographs of Hans Silvester - Text by Yvan Audouard
You may be familiar with those two stories....
Jean Nohain told me the fist one. He claimed to have seen the following ads in a village in Haute-Provence:
Great contest of boules
- First prize: a wonderful rabbit.
- Second prize: a beautiful rabbit.
- Third prize: a rabbit.
I can’t think of this third rabbit, without any speciality, without tenderness.
The second story I already told somewhere. But I can say that it is authentic since I saw, fifteen years ago, in Barbentane, writing on the window of a café:
Great contest of pétanque
- First prize: a bottle of pastis.
- Second prize: half a bottle of pastis.
- Third prize: a magnificent piece of art.
I do not want to use the word "surrealism" lightly, but if this text is not surrealistic, what do you need!
Yvan Audouard
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Boule reedition
Spectacular images of "joueurs de boules" in Provence, captured by the eye of Hans Silvester in the fifties and sixties. Retour De Voyage guarantees a great moment of pleasure to look at these photographs and read Yvan Audouard’s truculent comments.
Photographs of Hans Silvester - Text by Yvan Audouard