MEETING - Hosted by: Camille Thomine - Duration: 1 hour
LABOR AND COUNTERFIRE with Julie Bouchard and Emmanuel Venet.
A Quebec author, Julie Bouchard has written short stories and a first novel, Labor, published in France by La Contre Allée. In a large, anonymous city,
a gallery of ordinary characters come to life, carried by a relentless narrative mechanism. All are busy with their daily routine, their daily labor. Emmanuel Venet, writer and psychiatrist, has been building a body of work that is both sensitive and caustic for several years, published notably by Verdier. He has just published Schizogrammes, which confirms his talent for capturing in a few strokes a slice of life, a destiny there, and the gentle madness of the psychiatric institution elsewhere. His previous book, Contrefeu, explored the microcosm of a provincial society through multiple points of view with a delightful satire. Two styles, two tones, two ways of playing with the choral novel. But, in the face of what alienates and formats—the rhythm of work gestures, the pettiness of everyday life, the rigid institutional language—the same attempt is being made to revive speech and open up a space for freedom.
Event programmed in partnership with the Lettres du Monde festival (Bordeaux).
A Quebec author, Julie Bouchard has written short stories and a first novel, Labor, published in France by La Contre Allée. In a large, anonymous city,
a gallery of ordinary characters come to life, carried by a relentless narrative mechanism. All are busy with their daily routine, their daily labor. Emmanuel Venet, writer and psychiatrist, has been building a body of work that is both sensitive and caustic for several years, published notably by Verdier. He has just published Schizogrammes, which confirms his talent for capturing in a few strokes a slice of life, a destiny there, and the gentle madness of the psychiatric institution elsewhere. His previous book, Contrefeu, explored the microcosm of a provincial society through multiple points of view with a delightful satire. Two styles, two tones, two ways of playing with the choral novel. But, in the face of what alienates and formats—the rhythm of work gestures, the pettiness of everyday life, the rigid institutional language—the same attempt is being made to revive speech and open up a space for freedom.
Event programmed in partnership with the Lettres du Monde festival (Bordeaux).
