Season 5
from april 29th to may 1st, 2011
at 2pm and at 4pm
at the International Antiquarian Book Fair
at the Grand Auditorium of the Grand Palais, Paris
under the direction of Anny ROMAND
and the honourable patronship of Pierre-Gilles de GENNES
(Nobel Prize for Physics 1991)
« You can put anything you like in a novel. So why do people always go on putting the same thing ? Why is the vol-au-vent always chicken ! Chicken vol-au-vents may be the rage. But who sickens first shouts first for something else. The novel is a great discovery : far greater than Galileo’s telescope or somebody else’s wireless. The novel is the highest form of human expression so far attained. Why? Because it is so incapable of the absolute. In a novel, everything is relative to everything else, if that novel is art at all.»
D.H. Lawrence Reflections on the death of a porcupine.
Let us discover or rediscover hidden treasures with this Fifth Edition of "A Season of Nobel".
Each evening, an author who received the Nobel Prize wil be honoured:
(Sweden 1904-1978)
Nobel Prize : 1974
Même les orties fleurisent and Aniara - Agone Stock
Presented by Philippe BOUQUET, translator, critic, professor
and Elena BALZAMO, Critic, translator...
Reading by Anny ROMAND
et Olof ORLOFF, and at the cello
Kerstin ELMQVIST
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(USA 1904-1991)
Nobel Prize : 1978
Nouvelles inédites - Stock
Presented by Florence NOIVILLE, journalist,
and Jean D'ORMESSON, author
Reading by Sami FREY
and Douglas BRODOFF
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(Peru 1936-)
Nobel Prize : 2010
Un rasta à Berlin - Gallimard, les Cahiers de l'Herne
Presented by Stéphane MICHAUD, critic, professor and translator.
Reading by
and Joaquina BELAUNDE
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in its presence
(France 1940-)
Nobel Prize : 2000
Le quêteur de la mort - Seuil
Presented by Aliette ARMEL, critic and author
Reading by Anny ROMAND
and Alain DOUTEY
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(Great Britain 1874-1965)
Nobel Prize : 1953
Mémoires de guerre - Tallandier
Presented by François KERSAUDY, professor, author of Chrurchill's biography and translator of Mémoires de Guerre
Reading by Michaël LONSDALE
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(France 1913-1960)
Nobel Prize : 1957
Le Premier Homme - Gallimard
Presented by Anne Prouteau, professor, and Florence Colombani, director, journalist and author
Reading by Denis PODALYDES
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