Interview with Alain Berset, editor of Mieusserand John Berger.

Did you know that the peasants of Mieussy were featured in John Berger's books? These books are distributed worldwide and translated into several languages?

English writer John Berger settled in Mieussy in 1973. From this immersion in the rural world of Quincy, he wrote three books mixing novels and short stories, including La Cocadrille, which inspired the play Les Trois Vies de Lucie Cabrol and the film L'Écho shot in the Sommand mountain pastures. Without idealism or nostalgia, John Berger captures different moments of this world in motion, whose testimonies illustrate the link to time, the land, love, and the values of preservation in the face of the change that embraces them. At once a novel of fiction and a committed documentary, the story captures the evolution of the farming world. Editions Héros Limite has just published this trilogy In their work for the first time in French.


Nora Bériou will question Alain Berset on the importance of this new edition and why it has been re-translated, as well as on his choice of publisher and his collaboration with John Berger since 2010 on Le Blaireau et le roi.

Complément de localisation

The parking lot is located on the road to the Col de Joux Plane, 5 km from the town of Samoëns. Then you have to walk 200 m following the path downhill (westward) to get to the ecomuseum. It is also possible to get there by the interpretation path of the ecomuseum, starting from the hamlet of Le Bérouze. (1h20) The map is available at the tourist office.