Raconter en apprenant, apprendre en racontant
Résumé
Among the most essential activities of man, the narrative appears in pre-emi-
nent place. Since the dawn of time, men have not stopped telling, narrate, and
report events. Rock paintings, epic authors, playwrights, troubadours, poets,
novelists, griots, and, until very recently, grandmothers, have tirelessly told sto-
ries. In parallel with this fun activity, the heritage of humanity has increased
considerably in density but also in innovative conquests in all areas. Because,
more than any other activity, the story continually teaches those who cultivate
it. Even though all modern disciplines were not yet born, the story taught his-
tory, geography, morals, great genealogies, migrations, and the existence of
distant peoples, fabulous worlds, otherness, all encyclopaedic knowledge, all
inventions, and all fictions. Also and especially the language. Because the story
remains the indestructible language receptacle. Without the Homeric epics,
without the unequal Greek playwrights, without Virgil, without the sublime
poets of Arabia, without the Pleiades, Villon, Shakespeare, what would have been the actual knowledge of humans? Would Greek, Latin, Arabic, French,
English be languages of knowledge and culture? Without Rabelais, Chateaubri-
and, Hugo, Balzac, Zola, Flaubert, would the FLE be conceivable today?
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