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- SENSITIVE AREAS
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- Lettres d'Europe et d'Ailleurs
- 12-16 octobre 2021
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- 9th edition
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- on everyone's lips, even behind our masks, the word "crisis" comes up again and again. Health crisis, ecological crisis, economic crisis, crisis of civilizations... It's like a relay stick being passed around, in the middle of an athletics race that would be called "The World After". The crisis, a fuzzy notion repeated over and over again, encompasses everything and prevents us from looking further. Of a much more daring nature, the sensitive makes his way through the apocalypse. It questions our ways of living and creates alternatives.
- For this ninth edition of Lettres d'Europe et d'Ailleurs, we have chosen to give a place to inventive foreign voices who explore the sensitive world and intersect fiction, short stories, essays, autobiography and other hybrid forms. Shifting the lines of the present, not hesitating to bypass clichés and attack norms, here is a literature that is not about to run out of steam !
- Get ready to run on the track of Lettres d’Europe et d’Ailleurs 2021.
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- EVENTS & THEMES
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- 1. rebellion or revolution ?
- Dialogue between Guy Gunaratne and Annette Hug
- An explosive world to decipher. How to describe the violence between social classes and individuals ? From the 21st century to 19th, from the suburbs of London to the Philippines, we will look at the present, go back in time past and explore the territorial issues that lead to revolts and revolution.
- octobre the 12th, place to define, Brest, in partnership with La Maison de l’Allemagne de Brest
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- 2. inner experience
- Dialogue between Esther Kinsky and Thomas Melle
- What does literature say about extreme experiences like grief and bipolarity ? These words would be trapped if we did not take into account the authenticity they imply in writing. Memory, the passage of time, palimpsest, the fragile boundary between fiction and autobiography : we will address the inner experience and its multifaceted translation.
- octobre the 13th, at Goethe Institut, Paris
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- 3. Exiles, history, politics
- Dialogue between Dubravka Ugrešić and Gonçalo M. Tavares
- What are the links between literature and politics in a world to be rebuilt ? What is the role of the imaginary ? How to resist barbarism in the age of technology ? Through literature ? From besieged Zagreb to post-Salazar Portugal, it will be a question of double culture, languages, melancholy and a cleverly grating humor. A conversation about of the experience of exile.
- octobre the 14th, at La Maison de la Poésie, Paris, in partnership with L'Institut Camões
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- 4. Women and communities
- Dialogue between Louise Chennevière and Marcia Burnier
- What is a woman’s body and how to live desire ? How do we weave solidarity between women to counter the violence that they suffer ? What is the place for a feminine subjectivity far from so-called feminine writing that is as fuzzy as it is categorizing ? So many questions and so many audacious, disturbing and free proposals. Feminists of all countries, wake up. With this joyful song on your lips : don’t liberate me, I’ll take care of it !
- octobre the 15th, place to define, Paris
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- 5. Mediterranean worlds, reality and fantasy
- Dialogue between Najwat M. Barakat and Yànnis Palavos
- We will talk about the different ways of looking at a foreign country, avoiding as much as possible the exotic clichés. Reality can take on strange colors and the wonderful can seem almost natural. In this discussion, we would like to see Lebanon and Greece from a singular approach that does not find enough echo in the western media.
- octobre the 16th, at L'Institut du Monde Arabe, Paris
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