LES ÉVÉNEMENTS

Le laboratoire des familles

Wednesday 20 October 2010 at 19h30 | Avec : Vincent Borel | François Taillandier | Robert Solé


A discussion chaired by  Isabelle Rüf, literary critic and contributor to the cultural pages of the Swiss daily newspaper Le Temps.

In Antoine et Isabelle, Vincent Borel recounts the fate of his grandparents, who were caught in the crossfire of the Spanish Civil War and then forced into exile. With promising delicacy and intelligence, he records the experiences of his kin within the greater tragic story of the 20th century and in particular parallel with the story of Lyon’s great industrial family, the Gillet.
> Antoine et Isabelle (Sabine Wespieser, 2010)

A writer and journalist, Robert Solé has published several novels with Éditions du Seuil and a number of essays on Egypt, his native country. His latest novel, Une soirée au Caire, tells of the narrator’s return to his country after 25 years living in exile. The city of Cairo comes to life through Solé’s highly-coloured characters, each one picked out by a gaze of remarkable tenderness. 
> Une soirée au Caire (Seuil, 2010)

The novelist François Taillandier is probably best known for Anielka (Stock, 1999 – winner of the Académie Française Grand Prix for the novel). With Time to Turn, an account freighted with anticipation, he reaches a magisterial conclusion to « La Grande Intrigue », his quintet of novels tracing the lives of five families through five generations. This ambitious project, with its fragmented chronology, in itself marks a revitalisation of the society and family novel. 
> Time to turn (Stock, 2010)

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