Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Biographies and Imagination in Novels
05/19/2014 > 21:00 - 22:30
Les Subsistances
8 bis quai St-Vincent
Lyon 1er
8 bis quai St-Vincent
Lyon 1er
From Plutarch's Parallel Lives to contemporary "biographical fiction”, real life stories fuel the writer’s imagination. But what distinguishes those narratives constructed by a writer from a biography written by a historian ? What is the role of scholarship and what is the role of projection ? For writers, to take on the life of a historical figure has less to do with a concern for historical accuracy than for its fictional power, and leads less to a retelling of heroic deeds, than to the telling of its unknown, or unsuspected, aspects, in order to prolong the internal echo that it caused.
Hosted by Julie Clarini.
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