Literary cafes no longer have places to host the quarrel between the Ancients and the Moderns, the heated exchanges around an author, the palaver and the declamations?
Never mind,
Le Figaro Hors-Série
has recreated, for an evening, this warm and passionate atmosphere around the great Gustave Flaubert.
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Author often discovered in adolescence, according to high school French programs, at the age when the emotions and torments of Emma Bovary did not take their full resonance, the Norman writer is much funnier, finer and more than first readings might sometimes suggest.
To explore its work, the
Figaro Hors-Série team
has concocted a program that is spicy, varied and rhythmic, through which this hour and a half in the company of Flaubert passes at the speed of a dream.
Read the file:
Figaro Hors-Série:
Gustave Flaubert, the fury to write
A varied and surprising cast gives it a special music, orchestrated by Isabelle Schmitz, deputy editor-in-chief of the Figaro Hors-Série.
Michel De Jaeghere, editorial director of the Figaro Hors-Série, introduces us to the genius of Flaubert, deciphered and analyzed in this special 114-page issue with, in particular, Yvan Leclerc, best French specialist in Flaubert, who today directs the Center Flaubert and chairs the “
Flaubert 21
” committee, for the commemorations of the Flaubert year.
His in-depth knowledge of his work and his correspondence, which he deciphered and put online on the University of Rouen website, gives an intensity and clarity unusual to each of the answers to the questions that were put to him on the site. Norman writer (What were Flaubert reproached for during
Madame Bovary's
trial
? Did he really say “
Madame Bovary, c'est moi
”? Did he care about his reader's opinion?)
Sophie Demoy-Derotte, responsible for the Flaubert and History of Medicine Museum, opens the doors to this place where the young Gustave grew up, within the walls of the Hôtel-Dieu in Rouen, opposite the morgue, a place that strongly impressed his imagination.
Mathilde Brézet, professor of classical letters and author of the
Dictionary of Characters
in Le Figaro Hors-Série, whose theatrical sense and gift as a storyteller make you want to return to the school benches, especially when she sketches the psychological portrait of the heroes of
Madame Bovary
and
Un cœur simple
, by staging each of them, their motivations, the character that their size the hermit of Croisset ...
A trio of talented actors - Barbara Tissier, Vincent Violette and Simon Volodine-, who every first Tuesday of the month, organize the “
Spicilèges
”
literary show at the Lavoir Moderne in Paris
(https://lavoirmoderneparisien.com/programmations/les-spicileges /), readings by many literary authors on a theme, gives
Madame Bovary's
text
its both funny and dramatic resonance, from the unusual scene of this former 18th century washhouse.
By their tone, their gestures, their humanity, they embody Charles, Emma, Rodolphe… for us, giving them a very human existence.
Finally, the musician Tonia Makatsianou performs, between two readings, the Nocturne in C sharp minor, op.
posth, by Frédéric Chopin, whose nuances, silences and sudden excesses perfectly represent the melancholy, gloomy, craggy interior regions of sentimental Emma.
Under the pianist's agile and caressing fingers, the piano keys let glimpse the romantic and unhappy sensibility which turns the soul, and which Chopin shared with Flaubert - in addition to the great friendship which bound them both to George Sand.
This nocturnal color, all in nuances, the text of Flaubert read by the actors.
This program will be broadcast for the Printemps de la Francophonie in North Macedonia, Albania, Kosovo, Montenegro, Austria, and throughout the year, for the bicentenary of Flaubert, in Germany, Belgium, England and in Scotland, by the French Institutes and Alliances Françaises in Skopje, Tirana, Pristina, Podgorica, Vienna, Munich, Brussels, London, Oxford, Manchester, Edinburgh, Glasgow.
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Flaubert, the fury of writing
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Madame Bovary
prefaced by Jean d'Ormesson, an invitation for two to the next literary spectacle of Les Spicilèges, at the Lavoir Moderne in Paris.
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