The Literary Season

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 stages:

Part 1 14h30

A sports journalist portrays the tragic fate of the 'Mozart of football', Matthias Sindelar, who will resist in his own way the grip of Nazism in Autiche; while the shadows of the dark years of the Occupation still haunt the novelists: a young man stalks his ancestor to discover what was the action of the administrators in charge of spoliations; fierce anti-Nazis, after a halt at Sanary, the «Montparnasse-sur-Mer», are for some designated as «nationals of an enemy power», and prey to the threat of the Gestapo; teenagers in love with jazz, against all odds – hunted by the Nazis, chased by the collaborators, or rejected by the Resistance– fully strive to live their youth!

Part 2 16:30

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 however reserve them a «memorial tour»...  ; in Warsaw, in the 2010s, a couple discovers the zombies of Jews murdered during the Holocaust; in Rome, the meeting with the Pope and a renowned medalist, of Hungarian origin, leads to an ineluctable process of unveiling...  ; in colonial Algeria, Sarah, a young woman, dies under mysterious circumstances after the Holocaust...