READING CIRCLE: MAYLIS DE KERANGAL
Cultural, Entertainment/recreation, Conference, Reading
in Montauban
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For this meeting, the members of the Reading Circle are looking at Corniche Kennedy by Maylis de Kerangal. The author will be the guest of honor at the 33rd edition of the Lettres d’automne festival.
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“The little idiots of the cornice. The band. We don't know how to name them otherwise. Their body is incisive, their age dilated between thirteen and seventeen, and it is one and the same age, that of conquest: we turn our cheeks away from the maternal kiss, we spit in the soup, we desert the house. »
For one summer, a few idle teenagers defy the laws of gravity by diving along Kennedy Corniche. Behind his binoculars, a commissioner, responsible for monitoring this area of the coast,...“The little idiots of the cornice. The band. We don't know how to name them otherwise. Their body is incisive, their age dilated between thirteen and seventeen, and it is one and the same age, that of conquest: we turn our cheeks away from the maternal kiss, we spit in the soup, we desert the house. »
For one summer, a few idle teenagers defy the laws of gravity by diving along Kennedy Corniche. Behind his binoculars, a commissioner, responsible for monitoring this area of the coast, observes them. Between zero tolerance and a taste for the forbidden, things will get worse...
Harsh and sensual, the magic of this novel hangs by a thread, the thread of a writing without downtime, crystallizing all vertigo.
Open not only to members of Confluences but to all those who wish, the Confluences Reading Circle meets every 4 to 6 weeks to discuss a book chosen by the participants.
Find the debates of the Confluences Reading Circle in their program on CFM Radio.
Free on reservation
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Spoken languages
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Schedules
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Schedules
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- On September 12, 2023 from 10:00 AM to 11:30 AM
