Ireland offers an infinite variety of colors and landscapes, amazing skies. A country long torn by religious, linguistic and political struggles, and that its openness to the world has made it shine. Its inhabitants never cease to surprise us. Nationalists drunk with the open sea, they are survivors who cling to their land. They have traveled, exiled themselves, emigrated and have chosen, to defend themselves against suffering and poverty, irony and humor rather than romanticism. The Irish are aware that they are fantastic inventors of stories. Literature is a fundamental issue in affirming their identity. Ireland is fascinating and surprising, Books & Music 2019 will reveal many facets of it:
Exploring Joyce's landmark book Ulysses with novelist and translator Tiphaine Samoyault, evoking Beckett's relationship to music with musicologist Geneviève Mathon, spotlighting editor Joëlle Losfeld, and discovering contemporary Irish literature by meeting Dermot Bolger, Robert McLiam Wilson, Lisa McInerney, Michèle Forbes, Roddy Doyle, Lisa Harding, Connor O'Callaghan, Paul Lynch but also listen to traditional tunes in the warm atmosphere of a pub...So many proposals explored in words and music!