Entretiens et Textes inédits
Jonathan Dee - publié le 13/06/2012
"About money there is nothing new. Nor about social inequity. When I wrote The Privileges, I was careful to leave out as many time-specific details as possible, because I felt that to tie its characters, and the lives they led, to the circumstances of a particular moment in history was to excuse them, in a way, and thus to miss the point of their existence..."
Nicholson Baker - publié le 13/06/2012
"My first book was about a lunch hour – the second about sitting in a rocking chair holding a baby – the third about literary ambition. There was almost no sex in those three books. But I always wanted to be a pornographer – because after all sex is amazing and irrational and embarrassing and endlessly worth thinking about."
François Chaignaud - publié le 16/02/2012
"((Beauty, Intensity, Asymmetry)) are born in my mouth like three goddesses ripe for veneration - far more than ((Identity, Gender, or Transgression)), and utterly different from them. But this Beauty, of which we know only that some wish to buy but never to sell it, much less allow it to disappear or cause it to flee - nor to be the man or woman who no longer possesses anything but memories of it - is she a prescriptive goddess?"
Pierre Bayard, Arthur Goldhammer - publié le 14/02/2012
"The idea of attributing old works to new authors is not original. It has long been practiced by those lovers of literature, our students, who do not hesitate to attribute ((The Old Man and the Sea)) to Melville or ((War and Peace)) to Dostoevsky. What is interesting is that this kind of reinvention is not always properly appreciated by teachers."
Craig Calhoun, Dupuy Jean-Pierre, Klinenberg Eric, Lussault Michel, Mirzoeff Nicholas, Patrick Savidan - publié le 20/01/2012
During one year leading French and American social scientists met several times in Lyon and New York to explore our cultural interest in knowing and not knowing about recent catastrophes and emerging threats to our climate, cities, and communities. They will share the result of their reflection.
Richard Russo, Clifford Armion - publié le 30/08/2011
Richard Russo won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize with his novel ((Empire Falls)). In May 2011, he took part in the fifth edition of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and ((Le Monde)). He was kind enough to grant us an interview at the Hotel Carlton in Lyon.
Percival Everett, Clifford Armion - publié le 30/08/2011
In May 2011, Percival Everett took part in the fifth edition of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and Le Monde. He was kind enough to grant us an interview at the Hotel Carlton in Lyon.
James Frey - publié le 03/09/2010
James Frey was one of the guests of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and ((Le Monde)) in Lyon. He introduced his novel ((Bright Shiny Morning)) and told the audience about his perception of Los Angeles and his conception of storytelling.
Armion Clifford, Emilie Walezak - publié le 10/06/2010
In May 2010, Antonia Susan Byatt took part in the fourth edition of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and Le Monde. She granted us an interview and was kind enough to read a passage form ((The Children's Book)), her latest novel.
publié le 10/06/2010
Anne Enright came to Lyon in May 2010 to take part in the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and Le Monde. She was kind enough to answer our questions and to read an extract from her novel entitled ((The Gathering)) which won the 2007 Booker Prize.
Will Self, Beth Harper, David Belaga - publié le 23/06/2009
On 29th May 2009, the London-based writer Will Self came to Lyon to take part in the Villa Gillet's "Assises Internationales du Roman". He was to give a talk on his perspectives on the works of the influential French writer, Louis Ferdinand Céline, but before he did so I managed to catch up with him to ask a few questions about his interests, influences and views on modern fiction.