Diversity of voices, diversity of languages : one week of events and readings in Lyon and in the Rhône-Alpes region.
Dana Spiotta
Dana Spiotta © Jessica Marx
NOVELIST
United-States
A novelist and winner of several distinctions, including the famous Guggenheim fellowship, in Eat the document she reviews the life of Mary Whittaker, an anti-Vietnam activist in the 1970s who had to change identities. Dana Spiotta has written a symphonic novel about a United States that in 30 years has gone from fervent idealism to blatant cynicism, painting a subtle, powerful portrait of the decline of every kind of radicalism.
