French Literature in the Making: Pierre Bayard with Olivier Barrot
Monday 08 February, 2016
7pm, $0
New York University, Maison Français
16 Washington Mews
A professor of French Literature at the University of Paris VIII and a psychoanalyst, PIERRE BAYARD is also a writer known for works includingComment parler des livres qu’on n’a pas lus (How to talk about books you haven’t read), L’Affaire du chien des Baskerville (Sherlock Holmes Was Wrong: Reopening the Case of The Hound of the Baskervilles), Comment parler des lieux où l’on n’a pas été? (How to Talk About Places You've Never Been: On the Importance of Armchair Travel) and Aurais-je été résistant ou bourrau?. Bayard’s approach to textual analysis is non-conformist, charming and highly entertaining.
OLIVIER BARROT is a journalist, author, and television personality who plays a prominent role in French cultural life. He hosts the daily literary program Un livre un jour on France 3 and TV 5 television. He also directs a series of public discussions with actors of the Comédie Française on their profession. His most recent books are L'Ami posthume (2008), Ciné Club (2010), Le Fils Perdu, La Revue Blanche (2012), Un livre un jour, un livre toujours (2014), Mitteleuropa (2015). He is in his ninth year of hosting French Literature in the Making at NYU, which inspired his Paris series "Mots en scène", with playwrights.