Readers are proposing to invite, from time to time writers to participate in public debate to present their latest book, or chat about their work.
Invite guess the writers ensure a minimum public: even if they are geographically close, we can not move for ten people! So we must imagine what would motivate a reader to come to such meetings.
For your part, if you had the opportunity to meet a writer: what would you talk to him? What do you know?
- That presents the character work?
- Create links with reality, with other literary and artistic?
- Talking about how to write (the practice of writing, style ...)?
- Anything else?
You imagine yourself in the position of Apostrophes (time by Bernard Pivot) or Denise Glaser (here much longer) desultory discussion with the author of a book you've read or you will read soon?
Who to invite? Perhaps a writer on holiday in the area, or living there permanently, who knows or who in fact part of his story? An author of general literature, regional, essays, biographies, books, documentaries, children's books?
Perhaps a writer and editor (or a bookstore)? Can you imagine a "public reading" of excerpts from his works (by himself or by a reader)?
Feedback and suggestions are welcome.
© Photo Archives Gallimard. Left, Jacques Rivière, Jean Schlumberger, Roger Martin du Gard and Andre Gide Abbey Pontigny in 1922. Right, still young, Gaston Gallimard.
In the meantime you can go read on the website of Square Art Nimes the record of training devoted to just that ... What to do (or not do) when we invite an author. Two libraries in the region were represented (Ales and private).
Excerpts:
" For these meetings, the choice of an author may be from the need to know the work, the notion of desire, a team project and a working relationship with the institutions - the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs, the National Book Centre ... may be good advice, but also in partnership with publishers with whom direct contact is often complicit and friendly (Martine Cribier).
It can also be done from the importance of the work of writing, the place of the writer in creating the time "being in who invented the language today " (Jean-Gabriel Cosculluela). This is going further, to bring readers also to read, to discover, to "enlarge the land of reading" (Jean-Gabriel Cosculluela) ."
" Chacun percevait, à cet instant, quelle que soit sa profession, l’importance du temps, de la durée, des éléments primordiaux dans tous les aspects du travail autour de l’écriture et de ses acteurs. Les bibliothèques, comme les écrivains, les éditeurs et les libraires, se doivent de lutter contre la rapidité, l’urgence, la consommation immédiate."
