Keynote interview: Kenzaburô Ôé dialogue with Raphaëlle Rérolle / Le Monde. Introduced by Philippe Forest - VILLA-GILLET // AIR // LES ASSISES INTERNATIONALES DU ROMAN 2012

Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.



Keynote interview: Kenzaburô Ôé dialogue with Raphaëlle Rérolle / Le Monde. Introduced by Philippe Forest

Kenzaburô Ôé © Dorian Malovic

05/25/2015 >  19:00 - 20:30
Les Subsistances
8 bis quai Saint Vincent
Lyon 1st

Keynote interview: Kenzaburô Ôé. Dialogue with Raphaëlle Rérolle.
Introduced by Philippe Forest

In partnership with All Nippon Airways

 

With : Philippe Forest, Kenzaburô Ôé

“Rooted in the tradition of Shikoku, his native island, and nourished with Western literature and philosophy, drawing on the author’s life while still remaining open to fiction, fables, and myths, Kenzaburô Ôé’s work attests to the existence of an unknown Japan: the one on the margins, the periphery, the one peopled by pariahs and rebels, clashing with the powers that be in the name of democratic political and moral values. His works form a long meditation on individual and collective catastrophes with which humanity is faced, and which are notably named Hiroshima or Fukushima: they have established Ôé as one of the most important novelists in his country, but also as one of the main consciousnesses of our age.”
Philippe Forest

 

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Learn more about our guests :

Philippe  Forest
Kenzaburô  Ôé