Violence, Littérature et Politique: A Roundtable Discussion with French Writer Patrick Autréaux (04/15/15)
Please join us for a roundtable discussion* of the Charlie Hebdo events with French writer Patrick Autréaux, Professor Virginie Greene (Harvard University) and Professor Jeffrey Mehlman (Boston University). The discussion will center on writing, creativity, and the limits and responsibility of writers/artists. Moderated by Professor Odile Cazenave (Boston University).
Wednesday, April 15, 2015
6 – 7:30 PM
College of Arts & Sciences, Boston University
725 Commonwealth Avenue, Room 326
Writer and psychiatrist, Patrick Autréaux has published poetry, short stories, and contemporary art criticism. His first auto-fictions deal with the experience of illness as an interior journey– Dans la vallée des larmes (2009), Soigner (2010), and Le Dedans des choses (2012, prix Amic de la l’Académie française), all published by Gallimard, and concluding with Se survivre (2013) published by Verdier. Les Irréguliers (2015, Gallimard) is his first novel. One of his texts, “Le Grand Vivant,” with Thierry Thieû Niang, will be performed this spring.
Les Irréguliers : “Il pense que l’étranger est celui qui nous fait nous découvrir malgré nous, que c’est peut-être pour cela qu’on le désire ou qu’on le persécute. Que l’étranger est notre guide, même si c’est souvent a son insu.”
Co-organized and sponsored jointly by the Department of Romance languages and Literatures, Harvard University, and the Department of Romance Studies, Boston University and The Center for the Study of Europe, Boston University
*Roundtable in French
