Literature and ecological heritage : the hikes of Jean Giono et Marcel Pagnol

Abstract

The literary hike in Provence gives the first exposure to Jean Giono and Marcel Pagnol, who become actors for ecological preservation. By labeling a territory in their name, these writers contribute to transforming the space into a cultural territory, a developed place, a performance space. They make evident the need to rediscover the paths of yesteryear, to carry out memory work in space. There is therefore an archeology of the traces of the passage of writing which makes hiking a heritage object even though the footsteps of the writers remain invisible.