‘L’Essai : une écriture extensible’ by Jean-Christophe Bailly (Ecole Nationale Supérieure de la Nature et du Paysage, Blois)
“Since its invention by Montaigne the essai has been a quintessential literary form in France, through Rousseau and Stendhal down to Camus and Barthes. Jean-Christophe Bailly, as well as being a poet, and dramatist, is a leading exponent of the contemporary essai, embracing topics as diverse as animality, photography, Fayoum portraiture, the city, and, in his widely acclaimed Le Dépaysement, the topography of France. In this lecture he will draw on his own experience to highlight some of the salient features of a hybrid literary form.”
5.00 pm, Thursday 2 May 2013
Taylor Institution, St Giles’, Main Hall
Followed by a Drinks Reception in Room 2, 6.00 – 6.45 pm
Convener: Michael Sheringham, Marshal Foch Professor of French Literature
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