Tell me about the south

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Tell me about the south is a literary travel guide through the south of France by Manfred Hammes . The book, published by Wunderhorn Verlag in Heidelberg in 2005 , was named Book of the Month by ARTE .

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One of the main focuses is the German exile literature in Sanary-sur-Mer and Marseille , including Heinrich and Thomas Mann , Stefan and Arnold Zweig , Franz Werfel , Bertolt Brecht , Anna Seghers , Erich Noth , Emil Julius Gumbel , Lion and Marta Feuchtwanger, Hermann Kesten , René Schickele and Ludwig Marcuse .

It is also about casual and letter writers from other eras: In the Midi , the Marquis de Sade wrote literary texts, van Gogh wrote letters to Gauguin , Cézanne to Zola , and the Marquise of Sévigné her famous letters. The book tells of people who came to this area out of preference, for personal or political reasons, who were born here, died here, who still live here today. It also contains recommendations, for example information on restaurants, museums or other little-known places worth visiting.

In an entertaining way, the author covers everything from boules to the Cathars to bullfighting and language autonomy . The journey leads through the Rhone Valley , via Nîmes , Montpellier , Carcassonne to the Spanish border. From Marseille the route goes along the Côte d'Azur, over the Haute Provence back to Aix , Arles and Avignon .

The book, which contains around 300 illustrations on 450 pages, has a detailed appendix with registers of museums, people and places as well as a bibliography.

The second edition was published in 2008. In 2012, a documentary based on the book was broadcast on French television: Les Mots à la Bouche / Aus Schreibstube und Soupentopf , a film project with literary and culinary walks through the south of France with participation and the like. a. by Ysabelle Lacamp , Birgit Vanderbeke , Frédéric Jacques Temple and the chef Jérôme Nutile .

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