Nine times Julos Beaucarne

(B2) Poet or singer, author and performer, Julos B. is a "famous ignoramus" who deserves a detour. Master of the text, artist of the diversion of words, Beaucarne is also an ecologist before the letter. "The words are very nice, they deserve to be known". Son of the countryside, he never ceases to defend his friends who point their noses towards the sky, not hesitating to create a "front for the liberation of fruit trees". From Ecaussinnes, where he lived as a child, to Tourinnes la grosse where he lives now, passing through his epics in Provence, and his friends, the Sputniks, this biography is above all a tale of the work, of "julosland" more than of man. The builder of "pagodas", these cylindrical wooden rolls intended to contain the wires, puts his soul everywhere. Here no juicy look at "celebrity". The most painful episodes, such as the disappearance of his wife, are evoked soberly, for the record. But text in quotes, to spare. Perhaps the best way to understand the man.

(NGV)

* "Once upon a time Julos Beaucarne", Laurence Vanbrabant, Ed. Le Grand Miroir (diff. Flammarion), 188 p. 13,50 euros. http://www.legrandmiroir.com/