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.
Les désarçonnés
Discussion / Reading, in collaboration with Grasset publishers and the librairie du Tramway
“In Les désarçonnés I talk about those who fall down and get back up. Interestingly, I defend something for which I often paid a price: nervous depression. It’s strange to intercede on behalf of something you never want to see again. But if you want to change your life, if you want to change your family, if you want to change your couple, if you want to change houses, if you want to change countries, you have to go back to the beginning.” P. Q
Pascal Quignard, writer and essaysit / France
will be discussing with
Raphaëlle Rérolle, journalist / France
