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23.03.2022
19:00
encounter | literature / reading
Institut Pierre Werner (IPW)
Encounter with Jean-Philippe Toussaint - Moderator: Ian De Toffoli
Jean-Philippe Toussaint has been building, book after book, since his first novel “La Salle de bain” (Editions de Minuit, 1985), a powerful, deeply melancholic and profoundly human work. Eight years after his last visit to the Pierre Werner Institute, the writer returns for a public meeting with the Luxembourg author Ian De Toffoli. The discussion will focus on Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s two latest short publications for Editions de Minuit, the monologue “La Disparition du paysage“, which had its world premiere last year at the Théâtre national du Luxembourg, directed by Aurélien Bory and starring Denis Podalydès, and the latest story, “L’Instant précis où Monet entre dans l’atelier”, which depicts the last years of Monet’s life.
There will also be a discussion of Jean-Philippe Toussaint’s new essay, “C’est vous l’écrivain,” to be published in March by Editions Le Robert, in the new collection “Secrets d’écriture,” a text into the creative intimacy of the writer, a sort of extension of the masterful “L’Urgence et la patience” (Minuit, 2012). But Jean-Philippe Toussaint will also talk about his work as a preface – to the reissue of “Un train, un soir” by the Belgian writer Johan Daisne – and as a translator of Stefan Zweig.
An evening rich in exchanges and readings.
- 120'
- FR
- Free admission
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Institut Pierre Werner (IPW)
Coopération : Institut français du Luxembourg
Soutien : neimënster
Jean-Philippe Toussaint was born in Brussels in 1957. He is a writer, filmmaker and photographer. His first novel La Salle de bain was published in 1985. He is the author of about twenty books published by Éditions de Minuit. He won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for Fuir and the Prix Décembre in 2009 for La Vérité sur Marie. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages. He has directed four feature films, including La Patinoire in 1999, and has presented photo exhibitions around the world. His personal website (www.jptoussaint.com) is a creative site, hosting drafts of his books and featuring interactive literary projects. In 2012, he presented the exhibition BOOK/LOUVRE at the Louvre Museum, an exhibition that combines photographs, videos and installations to “evoke the book without going through the written word.”
Ian De Toffoli (1981), born in Luxembourg to an Italian-Luxembourgish family, is a writer, playwright and academic, author of a doctoral thesis defended at the Sorbonne-Paris IV, essays and plays published and translated in several European countries. Since 2012, her plays have been created at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, the Théâtre national de Luxembourg, the Théâtre du Centaure, but also in France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.
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Institut Pierre Werner (IPW)
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Coopération : Institut français du Luxembourg
Soutien : neimënster
Biography
Jean-Philippe Toussaint was born in Brussels in 1957. He is a writer, filmmaker and photographer. His first novel La Salle de bain was published in 1985. He is the author of about twenty books published by Éditions de Minuit. He won the Prix Médicis in 2005 for Fuir and the Prix Décembre in 2009 for La Vérité sur Marie. His novels have been translated into over twenty languages. He has directed four feature films, including La Patinoire in 1999, and has presented photo exhibitions around the world. His personal website (www.jptoussaint.com) is a creative site, hosting drafts of his books and featuring interactive literary projects. In 2012, he presented the exhibition BOOK/LOUVRE at the Louvre Museum, an exhibition that combines photographs, videos and installations to “evoke the book without going through the written word.”
Ian De Toffoli (1981), born in Luxembourg to an Italian-Luxembourgish family, is a writer, playwright and academic, author of a doctoral thesis defended at the Sorbonne-Paris IV, essays and plays published and translated in several European countries. Since 2012, her plays have been created at the Théâtres de la Ville de Luxembourg, the Théâtre national de Luxembourg, the Théâtre du Centaure, but also in France, Belgium, Germany and Italy.