“At night the animal looks at me and I read in its eyes noble stories, songs inviting me on travel.”

Through the twenty-two chants composing these Cantiques du corbeau, Bartabas offers a fantastical account of the origins of humanity. In a dreamt-out prehistory, where men and beasts are one and are in turn prey and predators, we see man acquiring the faculties that will lead him to enslave the earth and the animal kingdom.
A superb poetic meditation on the place of man among the living.

Les Cantiques du corbeau are published by Editions Gallimard on 03 March 2022. Feel free to pre-order your copy at your favorite bookseller!