What is the beauty of fear, darkness and Evil?

Fictions

Les Chants de Maldoror by Lautréamont

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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 © Christophe Raynaud de Lage

Presentation

In echo with the production by Julien Gosselin in the Cour d’honneur.

An impenetrable mystery surrounds the life and work of Isidore Ducasse, who died at 24 and wrote under the name Lautréamont, later hailed by the Surrealists as a spiritual father. An unclassifiable work—an epic of fear, darkness and Evil—its sublime and ferociously dark imagery continues to exert a powerful fascination.

Distribution

Cast TBC
Directed by Cédric Aussir

Practical infos

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