The
drive south on the N.570 from Arles is an experience in
instant "dépaysement" (physical and spiritual
dissociation). Abruptly the earth
loses its verticality : flat land, sea, and sky meet on a blurred
horizon and the sunlight reverberates over a landscape comparable
to none other in Provence.
Like the shifting coastline of this "terra infirma" a
complex tangle of history, myth and religion clings to the Camargue.
Resistant to rational investigation, It is steeped in conjecture,
implausibility, and mystery. |