Events
How to write violence?
Monday 25 May
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18h30
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120 min
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Round-table
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Les Subsistances - Verrière
Hosted by : Margot Dijkgraaf, Raphaëlle Rérolle
How can writing portray violence? How can the violence contained in the act of writing echoes reality?
Julia Leigh was born in Sydney in 1970 where she later studied philosophy and law. Her first novel, The Hunter (1999) was a huge success, for which she was awarded numerous prizes in Australia, America and England. It has been translated into six different languages. Her second novel, Disquiet (2008), recounts the story of Olivia who leaves Australia with her two children to move to the family chateau in France where she grew up. Disturbing, fascinating and timeless, Disquiet is a roman noir which leaves us suspended in a nightmare.
Julia Leigh was born in Sydney in 1970 where she later studied philosophy and law. Her first novel, The Hunter (1999) was a huge success, for which she was awarded numerous prizes in Australia, America and England. It has been translated into six different languages. Her second novel, Disquiet (2008), recounts the story of Olivia who leaves Australia with her two children to move to the family chateau in France where she grew up. Disturbing, fascinating and timeless, Disquiet is a roman noir which leaves us suspended in a nightmare.
Born in Pithviers in 1967, Marie NDiaye is the author of plays, novels and short-stories. She was awarded the Prix Femina in 2001 for Rosie Carpe (Minuit) and her play, Papa doit manger (Minuit), has been performed at the Comédie Française. Her novels are filled with weighty secrets and intangible mysteries, exploring the shady corners of a world in which appearances and reality merge. With Mon coeur à l’étroit, she once again brilliantly conveys a sense of anxiety and malaise which leads the reader into the labyrinth wanderings of a bad dream.
If all of Stewart O’Nan’s novels are marked by violence, they are above all haunted by the necessity to deal with it and to survive alongside it on a daily basis. In The Night Country, a true homage to the masters of the unreal, he combines the supernatural with pop culture, revealing the underside of the American way of life. On Halloween night, in a small town in Connecticut, five teenagers drive a car down dimlyreads roads, lose control of the vehicle and crash into a tree. Hell is not those of the dead but rather those of the survivors who are racked with guilt.
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