Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
War in litterature - Bernard-Henri Levy
© Alexis Duclos
8 bis Quai Saint Vincent
Lyon 1er
After Alain Badiou, Peter Sloterdijk, Alain Finkielkraut, Jean-Claude Milner, and Jacques Rancière, it is Bernard-Henri Levy’s turn to help us explore the relationship between literature and philosophy. The author of Siècle de Sartre (Grasset, 2000) knows that words are « loaded guns » and that their explosive force is the basis of any commitment worthy of the name. But more than that, joining a long line of « writer-spies »‚ Levy considers literature to be an art of war, that is, a strategy of decoy and mask, an affair of secrets and mystification. « I know the harsh rule of nuclear warfare in literature quite well. It means that there is never, absolutely never, a chance for a second strike », he writes.
En dialogue avec Jean Birnbaum.
