Le Lexique Nomade

Each novelist provides a key-word which opens up their work to the reader. This lexicon represents a totally original kind of dictionary which allows the reader to travel through the world of contemporary literature.

Lexique Nomade n° 1

co-publication Le Monde / Villa Gillet / Christian Bourgois / May 2008 / price : 7€

Lexique Nomade n° 2

co-publication Le Monde / Villa Gillet / Christian Bourgois / May 2009 / price : 7€

« Even the shortest and most mundane of words can powerfully convey a multitude of images, sounds, smells, taboos, secret pleasures, delightful and terrible memories or fantasies. All of these words are much, much more than the mere letters of which they are composed. They carry our hopes and our fears. The very shortest of their vowels can give rise to dreams. When placed together, end to end, they form stories, novels, memories, treatises, slogans, instruction manuals, declarations of love and messages in bottles. For them, nothing is impossible, too grand or too beautiful. Some of them even speak to each of us personally and secretly, as if they were old friends or enemies, causing our heart to leap and our thoughts to travel. This is why the words selected for this anthology are so precious. »

Raphaëlle Rérolle, Le Monde

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Collected Papers from the Forum

Roman et réalité / Reality and the novel
co-publication Le Monde / Villa Gillet / Christian Bourgois / November 2007 / price : 10€

The novel what an invention!

co-publication Le Monde / Villa Gillet / Christian Bourgois / November 2008 / price : 10€

« Driven by the desire to understand, to question and to go beyond reality, literature probes,examines, reveals, listens, speaks and dares to venture into the unknown. It dares to be original and unexpected. The texts collected in this anthology convey this power of fiction to question life and the world we live in today. The aim of the International Forum on the Novel is to allow literary thought to express itself. »
Guy Walter,  Director of the Villa Gillet and Les Subsistances

Collected papers from the third International Forum on the Novel will be published in autumn 2009 by Christian Bourgois

Le Monde des Livres : n° spécial

Just like last year, a special issue of Le Monde’s literary supplement will be dedicated to the International Forum on the Novel (to be published 21 May 2009).

« For Le Monde des Livres, the International Forum on the Novel is more than just an increasingly important annual event. Indeed, the Forum continues on its pages every week… Writing novels and reading novels represent two passions, two pleasures, but also two ways of questioning the world we live in today and trying to make sense of it. » Robert Solé, Head of Le Monde des Livres