Season 2
From november 8th to november 17th, 2007
under the direction of Anny ROMAND
and the patronship of Pierre-Gilles de GENNES
(Nobel Prize for Physics 1991) to whom this second season is dedicated.
Anatole FRANCE
(France, 1844-1924)
Nobel Prize : 1921
The Gods Are A-Thirst - Calmann-Lévy
The Project
Under the patronship of the Nobel Prize for Physics Pierre-Gilles de Gennes and with the support of the Centre Culturel Suedois, the Forum Culturel Autrichien, Services Culturels de l’Ambassade des Etats-Unis en France, the Société des Gens de Lettres (SGDL), l’Union des Aveugles et Déficients Visuels (UNADEV), Courrier International, the Magazine Littéraire, the magazine for foreign literature Transfuge and of the CCAS, a Season of Nobel Prizes will pay homage to authors who have won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and to their work. The Nobel Prize, and in particular the Nobel Prize for Literature, awards the major works or discoveries of the 20th century. We hope this will be one way of honoring these much esteemed writers, whose names have gone down in history, and who it is often worth rediscovering….
The meeting…
A Season of Nobel Prizes will create, in a theatre, a meeting between an author, his work and the audience.
The reading…
As an introduction, there will be a Biography of the author by a person of note whose life and work has been particularly inspired and influenced by said author.
Following this there will be a reading of one of the author’s work by an actor or actress in French and an actor who will read a few lines in the original language.
The programme will feature the following writers
Isaac Bashevis Singer (Stock), USA
Nadine Gordimer (Albin Michel), South Africa
Anatole France (Calmann-Levy), France
Imre Kertész (Actes Sud), Hungary
Octavio Paz (Gallimard), Mexico
Sigrid Undset (Stock), Norway
The Laureate of the 2007 Nobel Prize
The readings will take place from november 8th to november 17th, 2007.
The work will be read in in extenso, meaning that although cuts will be necessary for the purposes of the reading, these will be made from within the book, so as to respect the narrative from the beginning of the book to the end, to allow spectators to have as great an insight as possible into the work as a whole. In view of CD recordings of the readings, the text shall be read in unabridged format.