The Brive School

The Brive Book Fair also draws its impetus from a literary movement composed largely of writers with a close link with Corrèze and with Brive-la-Gaillarde… the School of Brive!

At the origin of the Brive School

Associated with the history of the Book Fair, Claude Michelet published at the end of the 70s, From thrushes to wolves, the first opus in a series of works set in the countryside around Brive*.

Several authors came together around this realistic writing, with a rural roots and dealing with the world of our countryside. They became a literary movement called the School of Brive.

*To be more precise, without really being so, the story takes place in Saint-Libéral… If you would like to follow in the footsteps of the Vialhe family, we invite you to come see us at the Tourist Office so that we can tell you where to go.

Member writers

The Brive School brings together: Gilbert Bordes, Colette Laussac, Claude Michelet, Martine Marie Muller, Jacques Peuchmaurd, Michel Peyramaure, Yves Portier-Réthoré, Jean-Guy Soumy, Denis Tillinac, Yves Viollier.

For various reasons and other stories of duck conflict and words raised under the bitter, this current disappears and four writers from this first grouping (Gilbert Bordes, Claude Michelet, Jean-Guy Soumy, Yves Viollier), found the New School de Brive… which opens the horizon of their stories to more open and exotic destinations.