Conférence contes – "Cent Nouvelles nouvelles : Le plaisir de la gauloiserie est-il obsolète aujourd’hui" par Claude Mastre

Claude Mastre is a teacher. Alongside teaching, he dedicates himself to storytelling and has become a professional of the spoken word. He attended Bruno de La Salle's workshop and draws inspiration from highly diverse registers.

According to Roger Dubuis, emeritus professor of oral literature, this collection is by no means an obscene book flouting moral laws. Our ancestors did not burden themselves with pretences. Their optimistic good health allowed them to call things by their proper names. The moment the theme of sexuality is addressed, it is regarded as taboo, yet our ancestors rejected both silence and innuendo. Their laughter is no longer quite ours; does our astonishment at their coarseness not go hand in hand with a certain hypocrisy? Confronting their laughter and ours seems far from useless. This collection also contains serious, grave, and even dramatic stories