Nicolas Bouvier – A Poetics of Travel
Centre national de littérature (CNL) - Lëtzebuerger Literaturarchiv
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Considered one of the founders of modern travel literature thanks to books such as L’Usage du monde, Le Poisson-scorpion, and Chroniques japonaises, Nicolas Bouvier (1929-1998) found in travel a way to free himself from the burden of existence and, through writing, a path to a certain freedom. During all his years of journeys, the Swiss writer also wrote poems: however, he only published one collection in his lifetime, Le Dehors et le Dedans, recently published by Michikusa Publishing in a translation by Robert Weis and Florent Toniello (Wat baussen a wat bannen).
During this evening, Ingrid Thobois, a specialist in Bouvier's work, will explain the very unique and strikingly modern view on the poetics of travel put forward by Bouvier. She will be in conversation with Robert Weis and Florent Toniello, whose own literary works also take up the theme of travel (notably about Japan and Iceland). The discussion will be accompanied by a joint reading of Bouvier’s poems, in French and Luxembourgish, as well as a short film excerpt.
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Venue: CNL Mersch
Joint reading of poems in French and Luxembourgish, plus a short film excerpt.
With support from the Embassy of Switzerland.
Automatically translated from French.
Where does it take place?
National Literature Centre of Luxembourg
2
rue Emmanuel Servais
7565 Mersch
Luxembourg
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