Des Mots et des Hommes (Of Words and Men)
Guess what country has received the most Nobel Prizes in Literature…? France, bien sûr! La langue de Molière et de Racine continues to inspire hip and upcoming French authors such as Nathalie Azoulai (Titus n’aimait pas Bérénice), Olivier Bourdeaut (En attendant Bojangles) and of course Andreï Makine, Russian-born author who chose France as his home, writes in French (Le testament français, Le pays du lieutenant Schreiber, and many more), and is now the youngest member of the Académie française. The Alliance Française will be hosting such acclaimed and renowned French and Francophone authors in this series.
Upcoming Events
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Thursday 4th April 2024 — 6:30pm
Célébrons la littérature québécoise !
Célébrons la littérature québécoise !
Thursday 4th April 2024
6:30pm to 8:30pmL'Alliance Française et le Bureau du Québec de Washington DC vous invitent à nous retrouver pour échanger autour de la littérature !
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Friday 12th April 2024 — 7:00pm
Le surréalisme, manifestement avec Pierre Taminiaux
Le surréalisme, manifestement avec Pierre Taminiaux
Friday 12th April 2024
7:00pm to 8:30pmEn écho au 100ème anniversaire du surréalisme, Pierre Taminiaux présentera son livre Miroirs du jeu et fera une lecture poétique
This event will be in French, you can ask your questions in French and in English.
This year marks the one hundredth anniversary of the Manifesto of Surrealism. On this occasion, Professor Pierre Taminiaux will present his latest book, Miroirs du jeu, a poetry volume inspired by both Dada and Surrealism.
He will then read some of his own poems on André Breton, Benjamin Péret, Paul Éluard and Robert Desnos as well as on the Belgian Surrealists Paul Nougé and Louis Scutenaire.
This reading will also focus on key-Surrealist notions such as the Manifestoes, automatic writing and the spirit of revolt that stirred the movement from the start.
About the speaker
Pierre Taminiaux is a Professor of French and Francophone Literature at Georgetown University. He has also taught at the University of Strasbourg and at the University of Paris-1-Sorbonne. His research has focused for many years on the relationship between 20th Century literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on Surrealism and the avant-garde both in France and Belgium.
He has published numerous scholarly books, including Robert Pinget (Le Seuil, 1994) The Paradox of Photography (Rodopi, 2009) Littératures modernistes et arts d’avant-garde (Honoré Champion, 2013) Du surréalisme à la photographie contemporaine : au croisement des arts et de la littérature (Honoré Champion, 2016), Révolte et Transcendance : Surréalisme, situationnisme et arts contemporains (L’Harmattan, 2018), Esthétiques radicales : actualité des avant-gardes (Hermann, 2021) and Politique de la contradiction : art moderne et surréalisme (Hermann, 2022). He is also the author of several poetry volumes, among them Les Mots de l’art (L’Arbre à paroles, 2012) and L’Esprit des Lieux : Mémoires poétiques (L’Harmattan, 2022).
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Wednesday 17th April 2024 — 7:00pm
Author on Tour : David Diop (IN FRENCH)
Author on Tour : David Diop (IN FRENCH)
Wednesday 17th April 2024
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7:00pm to 9:00pm