| CULTURAL EVENTS |
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| La Stratégie des Antilopes de Jean Hatzfeld (2007) |
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| Lecture |
| Saturday, February 07, 2009 |
| 2:00 pm |
| Alliance Française de Chicago, please enter at 54 West Chicago Avenue |
| Free |
| Date is subject to change We invite you to join us this season as we read four books that have garnered top French literary awards such as le prix Goncourt et le prix Médicis. The Goncourt has been awarded every December since 1903. The Médicis is awarded to an author whose “fame does not yet match their talent”. Some of the recent French literary prizes have gone to non-French authors writing in French; bringing their unique culture and experience to French literature. Francophone foreign writers bring what Roland Barthes called “the exoticism of the little difference”. With this trend in mind, we have selected two authors born outside of France; Hatzfeld is from Madagascar and Jelloun is from Morocco. Malraux and Modiano are both native Frenchmen. |
| Europa Books located at 832 N State Street in Chicago, (312) 335-9677, will stock several copies of each title. You can also order on line at sites like Amazon.fr. We will also provide a few copies in our Library and when possible, we will have relevant videos, DVDs, and on line material available for AF members. Each of the chosen books will be available seven weeks before our presentation given by a University professor. All readers are encouraged to join us here at the Alliance Française for each presentation which will be free and open to the public. You may want to create your own small reading group or contact your local library or public school to see if they would be interested in assisting you. |
| La stratégie des antilopes, Jean Hatzfeld (2007) The book is an account of what happened after the Rwandan authorities allowed 40,000 of those who carried out the 1994 genocide to return to their homes. We discover Nyamata, a village in which Tutsi survivors must now live in fear and memory side by side with their Hutu persecutors… |
| Jean Hatzfeld, formerly a journalist, has devoted himself, since the 2994 genocide in Rwanda, to working with those who survived, talking to both the victims and to their killers. He published "Dans le nu de la vie" in 2000, in which he reports the stories of Tutsi survivors. Two years later, his conversations with condemned Hutus culminated in "Une Saison de machettes". |
| We hope you will consider being part of Chicago’s largest French literature reading group. Bonne lecture ! For an interview with Jean Hatzfeld, click here. |
| For reservation information call: (312) 337-1070 |
