Patrick White, The Cockatoos (1974)

Transl. English (Australia) by Nathalie Pavec and Jean-Marc Victor Patrick White is to date the only Australian author to have received the Nobel Prize for Literature. This collection of six short stories, some of which are similar to short novels, and which he originally published in English in 1974, had until now remained unpublished in … Read more

Teaching hours on Golden Age Spain at the University of Toulon

To replace one of its teachers arrested by illness, the Spanish department of the UFR Letters of theUniversity of Toulon would need, for cth semester (February-June 2022) dunes) teacher on Golden Age Spain, primarily for the 3rd year of the License (L3), then for the L1, to work all or part of the following hours: … Read more

Common ground

In 2010, Vincent Debaene published Farewell to travel. French ethnology between science and littérature(Gallimard), by wondering about this French tradition which wants that, back from his “field”, the ethnologist writes not one, but two books, one scientific, the other literary: Easter Island d’Alfred Métraux, Ghost Africa by Michel Leiris, The High Rollers by Marcel Griaule, … Read more

Theater, music and opera in the Correspondance de Beaumarchais (Montpellier)

Address: Université Paul Valéry-Montellier 3, Site Saint-Charles, Av. Saint-Charles, 34090 Montpellier Beaumarchais’s correspondence constitutes an exceptional testimony to the cultural life of the 18th century. As an extension of the study days on the edition of correspondence organized in December 2019 in Montpellier (Edit matches 1: Diderot and Beaumarchais), we would like to focus this … Read more

Antihumanism (s). Forms, reflections and representations. Literature and cinema. Europe – United States

University of Paris (5 rue Thomas Mann, 75013). Flour Hall, Thesis room 580F Antihumanisme(s) Forms, reflections and representations (literature and cinema)Europe – United States – Canada / Latin America This international conference follows on from those organized at the end of November 2020: “From postmodernism to posthumanism. Literature and Cinema ”and“ From postmodernism to posthumanism. … Read more