« 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:

FRIDAY APRIL 29TH, 2011 at 2pm

Harry MARTINSON

(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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FRIDAY APRIL 29TH, 2011 at 4pm

Isaac BASHEVIS SINGER

(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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SATURDAY APRIL 30TH, 2011 at 2pm

Mario VARGAS LLOSA

(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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SATURDAY APRIL 30TH, 2011 at 4pm

GAO XINJIAN

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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SUNDAY MAY 1ST, 2011 at 2pm

Sir Winston CHURCHILL

(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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SUNDAY MAY 1ST, 2011 at 4pm

Albert CAMUS

(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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