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.
Pseudos and given names
25 rue Chazière
Lyon 4ème
Everyone has a particular relationship to his or her name. Who’s hiding under the names Kostrowitzky, Grindel, Donnadieu, and Kacew? We recognize Apollinaire, Éluard, Duras or Gary more easily. Does one create oneself as an author by creating a pseudonym? In Les Mal Nommés (Seuil, 2012), Claude Burgelin, emeritus professor of contemporary literature at the University Lumière Lyon 2 and specialist on the work of Perec, formulates a rarely explored hypothesis: that due to their complex relationship with their father, their ancestors, their “family,” some authors abandon their surname, and this name change is one of the secret sources of their work.
In Le Nom propre (PUF, 2013), Gérard Pommier, a psychoanalyst, psychiatrist, emeritus professor at the University of Paris 7 Diderot, and member of Espace Analytique, examines the decisive importance of names, analyzing their origins in religious, mythological, linguistic, and philosophical contexts. Names are the levers of psychoanalytical anthropology, making it possible to analyze identity as the relationship a subject has with his or her name.
Tariff : 5 €
Free for high school students, students and job applicants on presentation of a justification
