Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Arno Geiger
Arno Geiger © C. Hélie Gallimard
WRITER
Austria
Arno Geiger is one of the world’s most widely read authors writing in German. After Le vieux roi en son exil (Gallimard, 2012), a tale told with astonishing poetry and sobriety of his father’s struggle with Alzheimer’s disease, he has published Tout sur Sally, a magnificent portrait of a woman hungry for freedom. Revisiting the character of Emma Bovary, Geiger examines how couples and sexuality function, and questions faithfulness. His view of our little arrangements with the truth is always striking and unsettling.
