09/01/2026
Jérôme Melançon propose une généreuse analyse de 𝒫𝒾𝑔𝑒𝑜𝓃 𝓇𝑜𝓊𝑔𝑒 de David Béppia et en profite pour traduire certains passages du recueil! 🧙♀️
https://periodicityjournal.blogspot.com/2026/09/jerome-melancon-pigeon-rouge-by-david.html
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Was he transformed by the witches, or did they allow him to be reborn entirely? Throughout this second section, a narrative that is unified through a constant transformation, Galvaude mixes nostalgia and loss with a sense of hope for the future, death with rebirth, pause with briefly beautiful images and exaggerated metaphors.
As still and patient as this metamorphic being may be, the red pigeon favours action in the third section. Here he constantly drops kinds of red berries, which we can guess will first splatter and stain and look like blood, before burrowing in the ground and growing anew