Literature in the spotlight at the festival “Oh les beaux jours!” in Marseille

Christine Angot, Andreï Kourkov, Patrick Chamoiseau: for its 6th edition, the festival “Oh les beaux jours!” welcomes from Tuesday in Marseilles big names in French and international literature, but also promising authors, for six days of “literary friction”.

Literature in the spotlight at the festival “Oh les beaux jours!” in Marseille

Christine Angot, Andreï Kourkov, Patrick Chamoiseau: for its 6th edition, the festival “Oh les beaux jours!” welcomes from Tuesday in Marseilles big names in French and international literature, but also promising authors, for six days of “literary friction”.

"These are frictions that the authors can maintain themselves with their texts because they are very often asked to come and read them aloud", explained Fabienne Pavia, co-director of this festival which is part of the development plan of public reading voted by the city of Marseille in 2016.

There will also be “friction with music” or even “friction with disciplines since we like to mix literature with science” and “we also rub with comics, with the image”, a-t- she completed during the presentation of the event.

Nearly a hundred authors and artists will be present during some 50 meetings, readings and shows organized in five emblematic cultural places in Marseille: the Museum of European and Mediterranean Civilizations (Mucem), the Criée theater , the Alcazar library, the Pierre Barbizet conservatory and the History Museum.

In addition to major interviews with recognized authors - Christine Angot, the Turkish writer Elif Shafak or even the Martinican author Patrick Chamoiseau, winner of the 1992 Goncourt prize for Texaco, the festival also offers meetings with authors less familiar to the French public who depict the drifts of our world.

"Political drifts - there is a lot of talk of authoritarianism, populism which even lead us to war -, ecological drifts, climatic drifts and then also drifts caused by digital cultures", detailed Ms. Pavia .

These are mentioned in particular by Hanna Bervoets, a Dutch author who in her first novel translated into French, "The things we have seen", published by the young Marseille publishing house Le noise du monde, tells the daily life of content moderators. from the web. The text will be read by actress Anna Mouglalis.

The young Ecuadorian author Monica Ojeda, for her part, will come to talk about Jaws, a book which, according to Nadia Champesme, co-director of the festival, "strikes everything".

Another big red thread of the festival, the music will resonate through a multitude of proposals: the opening evening where five authors, on the rhythms of Albin de la Simone, will take us in songs in the shower, a "story-recital" by Pascal Quignard or even a very jazzy "chaos opera" around Baudelaire.

Full lineup here.

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