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The author
Jérôme Magnier-Moreno was born in Paris in 1976. After studying to be a landscape architect, he began his career as a painter in 2001. He creates both figurative and abstract landscapes under the pseudonym Rorcha. At the same time, he finds in writing another approach to landscape and reality, which he already expresses in his first novel, Le saut oblique de la truite.
Scotland and fishing as passions
Writer and visual artist Jérôme Magnier-Moreno uses his words and paintings to convey his passion for Scotland and trout fly-fishing.
Highlands was written in motion. First the night trains and coaches that take the author up to the north of Scotland, then the long walks on the soft soil of the moors, and finally this movement of another kind, more interior, which makes him relive his childhood as he approaches a certain unnamed lake. Back from his wanderings through the grasslands and peat bogs, he returns to the calm of his studio, its music, its depth, its warmth.
This book is the fruit of a double work of writing and painting, offering not a classically illustrated text, but the meeting of two distinct creative universes - that of the painter and that of the writer - who come together to tell their own version of the same story. A beautiful work that takes us along the river...
Extract
 " Following the road that passes close to the hotel, I soon come upon the bridge over the Traligill River. Although not particularly impressive, this river âeuros this torrent âeuros has a special place in my heart, for it was in its cool waters that I caught the first trout of my life. And for a child, holding a trout at the end of his line is a bit like catching the sun with a lasso...Â"
Highlands
- Author: Jérôme Magnier-Moreno
- Foreword: Grégoire Bouillier
- Genres: Memoirs and autobiographies
- Collection: Le sentiment géographique
- Publisher: Gallimard
- Number of pages: 128 pages,
- Number of illustrations: 12
- Size: 185 x 235 mm
- Weight: 359 grams
- Price of printed book: 23 euros
- Digital book price: 12.99 euros
