Claude Simon and Life Writing

– Room D3, Pathfoot Building, University of StirlingFreePublic

This international event is split between the French Institute in Edinburgh and the University of Stirling, and is devoted both to Claude Simon and to life writing.

Its strong comparative element includes papers on Simon and Ernaux, Leiris, Cendrars, Modiano, Le Clézio, Chévillard and Cézanne. The event is organised by the Association des lecteurs de Claude Simon, in association with the IFE and the University of Stirling. To find out more information about the programme on 21 and 22 May in Edinburgh visit the Institut français d’Écosse website.

The event on Saturday 23 May takes place at the University of Stirling. Entry is free, to register email literatureandlanguages@stir.ac.uk - you can also order a buffet lunch at £16.95.

Event schedule

09:30 - 10:00: Informal welcome

10:00 - 10:10: Welcome from the University of Stirling

10:10 - 11:10: Forming the self

  • Dominique Viart, Institut Universitaire de France and Université de Nanterre, “L’Ethos de Claude Simon” (lectures, interviews, novels)
  • Nora Madec, EHESS Paris, “Un acte de naissance inlassablement reconduit : l’écriture comme matrice de prise de corps et d’origine dans l’œuvre romanesque de Claude Simon”. (Le Sacre du printemps,1954, Histoire, 1967, L’Acacia)

11:30 - 12:30 Comparisons I

  • Wolfram Nitsch, Universität Köln, “ ‘MOI ?‘ Lʼécriture de soi dans Histoire,196 à la lumière de La règle du jeu de Michel Leiris”.
  • Emelyn Lih, New York University, “A Life in Fragments: Abandoning Mastery in Le Jardin des Plantes (1997). (Cendrars, Bourlinguer and Leiris, Frêle Bruit)

12:30 - 14:00: Lunch

14:00 - 15:30: Comparisons II

  • Geir Uvsløkk, University of Oslo, “‘Ce n’est pas vraiment autobiographique.’  La mise en texte du vécu chez Claude Simon et Patrick Modiano”. (Le Tramway, 2001, and Un Pedigree, 2005)
  • Alina Cherry, Wayne State University, “Authoring the Self through the Father: A Genealogy Rewritten. Claude Simon et Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio”. (L’Acacia and L’Africain,2004)     
  • Marie Hartmann, Université de Caen, “L’énigme de la vie” (Eric Chévillard, Monotobio)

15:45 - 16:15: Interview

  • Patrick Longuet, Université de Savoie Mont-Blanc, “Claude Simon tel que je l’ai connu”. In conversation with David Zemmour. Patrick Longuet discusses the exhibition of posters which he designed (on display in Pathfoot Building) and his unpublished preface for La Corde raide.

 

 

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