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.
Olivier Rolin, Sandrine Treiner : Wresting from oblivion’s grasp
Olivier Rolin ©Hermance Triay and Sandrine Treiner ©Christophe Abramowitz -Radio France
25 rue Chazière
Lyon 4ème
In collaboration with éditions Grasset and du Seuil. In partnership with Ouvrir l’œil bookstore.
Presented by : Alexis Lacroix / Marianne
Can literature help fill some of the gaps in history? Does the miracle of writing then consist in breathing back life into people who have disappeared or periods who have been forgotten? In finding, through a skilful blend of fact and fiction, the details of a life, the revolts, the dreams? Since “we should each take charge of one who has been forgotten,” as Sandrine Treiner puts it, two novelists have taken up the task of wresting daily life heroes from the Soviet mass graves. Reclaiming a voice for those still anonymous, completely erased by history, and dispensing justice for them – such is the literary mission of Sandrine Treiner and Olivier Rolin.
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 Villa Gillet starting January 5
› by phone : 04 78 27 02 48 (Monday-Thursday 1:30 pm – 6 pm / Friday 1:30 pm – 5 pm)
› through the website : www.villagillet.net
Tickets can be paid with a check or cash upon withdrawal. Last-minute ticket office (within the limits of available space) opens an hour before the event starts.
Reservations will close on Wednesday, February 25, at 6 pm.
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