The Villa Gillet
Founded in 1987, the Villa Gillet welcomes in Lyon fiction and non-fiction writers, artists and scholars from over the world to ponder issues relevant to our ever shiflting world. The Villa Gillet makes the work of exciting contemporary thinkers accessible to the largest audience possible, by organizing events during the year, and during its festivals : the International Forum on the Novel — happening every year in May since 2007— co-organized with "Le Monde", Walls and Bridges, a ten-day series of events that happened from 2011 to 2013 and Mode d'emploi : un festival des idées — a festival of public debates — initiated in 2012.
Meeting Russell Banks. A Permanent Member of the Family (Un membre permanent de la famille) (Actes Sud, 2015)
Russell Banks ©Nancie Battaglia
Place Joannès Ambre
Lyon 4ème
In collaboration with the Éditions Actes Sud. In partnership with the Passages bookstore
Presented by Françoise Monnet / Le Progrès
The twelve short stories in this collection are, for the most part, set either in Florida or in the state of New York, seemingly symbolizing the two polar aspects of Presented by Françoise Monnet / Le Progrèsthe American way of life. As in almost all books by Russell Banks, the characters are very much alone – people who are divorced, abandoned, forgotten, jobless, widowed – in short, those who are always isolated.
In this unstable world, the author introduces tension, both unbearable and fascinating. A tension that inhabits the humiliated ex-husband who stalks his ex-wife as much as the old penniless man about to get arrested by his own sons. In each case, the stories are plagued by disturbing lies, that unsettle and destabilize us readers when we think we are safe, still clinging as we are to the illusion of a possible way out, for want of a happy ending.
Showing full mastery of his art, Russell Banks offers us here a collection so intense that reality and daily life are transmuted into genuine metaphysical allegories.
6 € / Free for high school and university students, job-seekers, those receiving RSA aids and Amis de la Villa Gillet (with proof)
Pre-booking is required ; please contact the Théâtre de la Croix-Rousse
› at the box-office or by phone : 04 72 07 49 49 (Tuesday-Friday 1 pm – 7 pm / Saturday 2 pm – 7 pm)
The box-office on-site and by phone will be closed from Monday, December 29 through Monday, January 5, and will open exceptionally Monday, January 12 from 2 pm to 7 pm.
› on the website : www.croix-rousse.com
More about the guest :
