Do you speak pleasure?

Fictions

Le pur et l’impur by Colette

  • Fictions

With France Culture

Every summer, France Culture takes over the courtyard of the Musée Calvet for a week of readings, poetry, philosophy, and creative works. In harmony with the Avignon Festival’s program, its history, and the highlights of this year’s edition, France Culture is focusing this year on the big questions that literature poses to us. As is the case every year, iconic works will be performed by actors and actresses, alongside authors, musicians, and artists invited for the occasion.

Fictions & Émissions avec France Culture © Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Presentation

In this 1932 work, Colette offers, through a gallery of portraits, a reflection on “those pleasures lightly called physical.” Through her poetic and sensual language, we encounter Charlotte and the lie told to her young lover, the lesbian poet Renée Vivien, and two young Englishwomen who eloped in 1778 to live together for the rest of their lives.

Distribution

With Laetitia Dosch and Isaline Prévost Radeff
Music Adrien Soleiman and Ojard
Directed by Mélanie Péclat

Practical infos

Durée Duration : 1h

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