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.
Meet Frédéric Beigbeder
Place Joannès Ambre
Lyon 4ème
In partnership with éditions Grasset, Le Progrès and la librairie Passages
Hosted by Françoise Monnet / Le Progrès
“There always comes a time when men seem to be waiting for the catastrophe that will solve their problems. Such times are usually called “prewar.” In New York in 1940, a 21-year-old budding writer named Jerry Salinger met Oona O’Neill, the 15-year-old daughter of America’s greatest playwright. Their idyll really only began the following summer ... a few months before Pearl Harbor. Salinger was drafted to fight in Europe in early 1942 and Oona went to try her luck in Hollywood. They never married and never had any children.” F. B.
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