As every year, the literary season is an opportunity to discuss with authors about their latest publications.
If literature has the power to put into words the years of war that often seem ineffable, it is also a way to question the significance of memories, the difficulty of reconstruction, the complexity of memory and transmission.
This day will take place in two
Part 1 → 14:30
A sports journalist depicts the tragic fate of the "Mozart of football", Matthias Sindelar, who will resist in his own way the grip of Nazism in Austria; while the shadows of the dark years of the Occupation still haunt the novelists: a young man tracks down his grandfather to discover what was the action of administrators responsible for spoliations; fierce anti-Nazis, after a halt in Sanary, the "Montparnasse-sur-Mer", are for some designated as "nationals of an enemy power", and in the grip of the threat of the Gestapo; teenagers in love with jazz, against all odds – hunted by the Nazis, chased by collaborators, or rejected by the Resistance – are making every effort to live their youth!
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Part 2 → 4:30 p.m.
The authors of these four novels take us to the borders of reality and fiction: in Poland, a couple with no history goes on an organized trip, which will nevertheless reserve for them a "memorial tour"... ; in Warsaw, in the 2010s, a couple discovers the zombies of Jews murdered during the Holocaust; in Rome, the encounter with the Pope and a renowned medal-maker of Hungarian origin leads to an inevitable process of unveiling... ; in colonial Algeria, Sarah, a young woman, dies under mysterious circumstances after the Holocaust...
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