Les entretiens
publié le 24/06/2021
Des élèves de première et terminale du lycée Blaise Pascal à Charbonnières-les-Bains ont rencontré l'auteur Thomas Chatterton Williams dans le cadre du Littérature Live Festival de la Villa Gillet. Des groupes qui suivent l'enseignement de spécialité LLCER anglais et LLCER anglais monde contemporain, ainsi que des groupes de la section européenne anglais, ont pu échanger avec l'auteur autour de son livre ((Self-Portrait in Black and White: Unlearning Race)), paru en 2019.
Joshua Cohen, Benjamin Ferguson - publié le 20/12/2019
Joshua Cohen is an American writer and literary critic, whose first collection of essays, ((ATTENTION: Dispatches from a Land of Distraction)) (2019) explores the notion of attention in today's society. In this interview, Joshua Cohen talks about writing for a global readership, being a novelist in the age of non-fiction, the effects of #MeToo on literary production and the invention of facts.
Jane Smiley, Jillian Bruns - publié le 09/10/2018
À l'occasion des Assises Internationales du Roman, Jane Smiley, lauréate du Prix Pulitzer 1992 pour son roman ((L'exploitation)), a accepté de répondre aux questions de Jillian Bruns, lectrice à l'ENS de Lyon, pour la Clé des langues. Jane Smiley revient ici sur la genèse des trois romans qui constituent la trilogie ((The Last Hundred Years)).
Claire Messud, Jillian Bruns - publié le 25/09/2018
À l'occasion des Assises Internationales du Roman, organisées par la Villa Gillet, la Clé des langues a pu rencontrer Claire Messud, romancière et enseignante américaine, auteure de ((The Burning Girl)), paru en 2017. Dans cet entretien, elle nous livre ses réflexions sur l'importance de la langue et du roman en tant que genre littéraire, et revient sur son enfance partagée entre la France et les États-Unis.
Ian McEwan, Vanessa Guignery - publié le 30/06/2018
Dans le cadre des Assises Internationales du Roman, Ian McEwan est venu à l'École Normale Supérieure de Lyon pour parler de son roman ((Atonement)). Cette rencontre avec les étudiant.e.s a été organisée par Vanessa Guignery, professeur de littérature anglaise et postcoloniale à l'ENS, membre du laboratoire IHRIM, en collaboration avec la Villa Gillet.
Clifford Armion, Paul Auster, Siri Hustvedt - publié le 13/02/2018
Le 17 janvier 2018, la Villa Gillet a permis à neuf classes de lycée de rencontrer les auteurs Paul Auster et Siri Hustvedt. Les questions portaient principalement sur les nombreux écrits de Siri Hustvedt ainsi que le dernier roman de Paul Auster, ((4 3 2 1)). L’enregistrement audio de l'échange est accompagné d'une retranscription, modifiée par endroit pour être adaptée au format écrit.
Salman Rushdie, Vanessa Guignery - publié le 09/06/2017
À l’occasion des Assises Internationales du Roman, Vanessa Guignery, Professeur à l’Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon, a organisé à la Villa Gillet le 30 mai 2017 une rencontre entre Salman Rushdie et des étudiants. La rencontre portait en partie sur le dernier roman de Salman Rushdie, ((Two Years, Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights)), mais également sur ses autres œuvres, son métier d’écrivain et son rapport à la littérature.
Zia Haider Rahman, Marion Coste - publié le 27/03/2017
Zia Haider Rahman, originaire du Bangladesh, écrit son premier roman, ((In the Light of What We Know)), après une carrière sur Wall Street et auprès de l’ONU. Une plume sobre et fluide mène le lecteur du Bangladesh rural à New York et aux campements de l’ONU en Afghanistan. Les deux personnages principaux, vivant chacun des décalages culturels entre leurs origines et le monde qu’ils habitent, semblent marqués par le constat qu’un exilé pourrait finalement n’être « qu’un (...)
Lionel Shriver, Clifford Armion - publié le 30/06/2015
The author of numerous novels, she won the Orange Prize for ((We Need to Talk About Kevin)), adapted for the screen in 2011 by Lynne Ramsay. Her sarcastic flair is evident in ((Big Brother)): Pandora, a highly successful businesswoman who hasn’t seen her brother—a seductive, boastful, jazz prodigy—in five years finds him obese, neglected, and compulsive. Lionel Shriver provides a keen analysis of our neurotic relationship with food and the alarming increase in obesity in our societies.
Avital Ronell, Clifford Armion - publié le 02/12/2014
We have to understand what education implies. To educate means to pull out of the other. There’s a pulling, there’s a little violence. I’m sure that education does take place without authority, if we understand by that a certain, measurable, examinable, testable level of acquisition and performance. However if you want to truly inspire, to accelerate and quicken and enliven the pulse of the student body, then authority would probably be an important premise.
David Treuer, Clifford Armion - publié le 08/09/2014
David Treuer took part in the eighth edition of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and ((Le Monde)). He answered our questions on his involvement in the protection of Indian culture.
Kevin Powers, Clifford Armion - publié le 30/06/2014
Kevin Powers took part in the eighth edition of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and ((Le Monde)). He answered our questions on his first novel, ((The Yellow Birds)).
Clifford Armion, Patrick McGuinness - publié le 24/06/2014
Patrick MacGuinness took part in the eighth edition of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and ((Le Monde)). He answered our questions on his first novel, ((The Last Hundred Days)).
Clifford Armion, Jonathan Coe - publié le 18/02/2014
Jonathan Coe was born in Birmingham in 1961. His novels include ((The Rotters' Club)), ((The Accidental Woman)), ((A Touch of Love)), ((The Dwarves of Death)), ((What a Carve Up!)), which won the 1995 John Llewellyn Rhys Prize and the French Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger and ((The Rain Before it Falls)). His latest novel is ((Expo 58)).
Clifford Armion, Susan Neiman - publié le 20/01/2014
I think we’re very confused about the subject of heroism. I began to get interested in the subject when I realised that we are actually at a historical cesure since the end of the Second World War. It used to be the case although there were many different conceptions of heroism. It used to be unquestioned that everyone wanted to be a hero, and everybody wanted to be a better hero than the next person. What has happened in the last fifty years or so is that the notion of the hero has in many (...)
Randall Kennedy, Kédem Ferré - publié le 10/01/2014
Harvard Law Professor Randall Kennedy answered Aiguerande 11th graders before a conference at the Hôtel de Région for the Villa Gillet Mode d'Emploi festival, on 24 November 2013 in Lyon, France. The meeting was organised by the Villa Gillet and La Clé des Langues, and was prepared by Kédem Ferré and his students.
Clifford Armion, Barbie Zelizer - publié le 06/01/2014
Barbie Zelizer is a Professor of Communication, and holds the Raymond Williams Chair of Communication and is Director of the Scholars Program in Culture and Communication at the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. A former journalist, Professor Zelizer's work focuses on the cultural dimensions of journalism, with a specific interest in journalistic authority, collective memory, and journalistic images in times of crisis and war. She also works on the impact of (...)
Clifford Armion, Doug Saunders - publié le 05/12/2013
Migration almost always follows the same pattern. It doesn’t go from one country to another country. It goes from a cluster of villages or a sub-rural region to specific urban neighbourhoods. Those urban neighbourhoods which are usually low-income, with low housing cost, serve as the bottom rung of the ladder for people arriving in a new country.
Hugo Hamilton, Kouadio N'Duessan - publié le 10/06/2013
"Somebody mentioned the word confusion. That is probably the word that describes my childhood most clearly. It was a confusion of languages, confusion between the inside of the house and the outside of the house, confusion between my father’s idealism and my mother’s memories. There’s always been confusion in my life."
Clifford Armion, A.S. Byatt - publié le 03/06/2013
A.S. Byatt took part in the seventh edition of the Assises Internationales du Roman, organised by the Villa Gillet and Le Monde. She answered our questions on her latest novel, ((Ragnarok)).
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.
Beverley Naidoo, Clifford Armion - publié le 01/06/2010
Un entretien accordé à La Clé des langues par Beverley Naidoo suite à son déplacement dans l'académie de Rouen.
Randall Kennedy , Clifford Armion - publié le 01/02/2010
Lors de son passage à la Villa Gillet, en janvier 2010, Randall Kennedy s'est exprimé sur la dimension historique de la dernière élection présidentielle américaine. Cet évènement culturel s'est tenu le soir même où Barack Obama prononçait face au congrès américain le traditionnel discours sur l'état de l'union. Le lendemain, Randall Kennedy, professeur de droit à Harvard et membre du barreau de la Cour Suprème des Etats-Unis, accordait une interview à Clifford Armion, (...)
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.