Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Pierre Bergounioux
AUTHOR
France
BiographY
Pierre Bergounioux, born in 1949, is a French writer whose many works, of autobiographical inspiration, read like one big book, constantly repeating the same themes to patiently zero in on the sole object of his concern: existence subject to the tireless work of time. Marked by Faulkner and the way this American author shook up novel writing, he has been compared to Claude Simon and Pierre Michon.
A graduate of the École normale supérieure of Saint-Cloud, agrégé in modern literature and a middle-school teacher, occasional literary critic, and also sculptor, Bergounioux has recently started teaching at the Beaux-Arts of Paris. Written in a remarkably chiseled poetic style, his books attempt to clarify the painful question of roots and being uprooted, not only geographically but ontologically. Bergounioux’s work seeks to go beyond the rift that leads from childhood to adulthood, that is, the knowledge of one’s own ignorance and the world’s absurdity.
Pierre Bergounioux received the Roger Caillois prize in 2009 for his work.
