An annual meeting of International literature
The International Forum on the Novel 2008
may 26th - June 1st 2008 - Lyon / France
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Why so much love?
Monday 26th May 2008
19:30 pm
Librairie “Le Bal des Ardents”
Participants:
Nicolas Fargues - France
Ludmila Oulitskaïa - Russia
Annie Proulx - USA
Alissa York - Canada
It is no coincidence that the love story developed at the same time as the novel. It is as if love, on account
of its complexity, its density, its contradictions and its impulses, allowed the novel to discover itself and to
open itself up to the enigma of the world and the individual. If the role of the novel is to translate elusive
and concrete reality, to cross-examine its mystery and its splendour, then the course of love and of feelings
in general opens perspectives where we can let literary imagination and the power of its language thrive.
Love is a mirror in which the intimacy of men and the characters of the world he inhabits can be reflected.
Through love stories, other stories may be told which link people to the societies in which they live, to the
spaces they cross and to the time which transports them.
Featured titles
Zwinger, a novel by Elena Kostioukovitch (2013)
Rights sold: Armenia - ORACLE, Italy - BOMPIANI (RCS LIBRI), Russia - CORPUS BOOKS (AST), Serbia - RUSSICA, Ukraine - FOLIO
Elena Kostioukovitch´s Zwinger blends together the genres of historical novel and thriller, with a lively and ironic style. In the frame of a fictional detective story, the book investigates deeply into the real mysteries of the Twentieth century history through precious documents and direct testimonies of the author.
«Just before Victor Zieman was faxed the severed head of his assistant Mireille, he was sitting in the Iroha restaurant in Frankfurt with Behr, eating tempura. It was Wednesday. All this mayhem had started on the Saturday before the Book Fair, in Victor’s Milan apartment where everything looked exactly the same as it always did.»
Seven wild days in the life of Zwinger's main character, Victor Sieman, twist together into a tight knot of quest and adventure, where the final, true goal...
Read moreKira Georgievna, a novel by Victor Nekrasov (1961)
Published by: Croatia - Svjetlost (1963); Czech Republic - SNKLU (1962); Denmark - Kbh (1962); France - Seuil (1963); Germany - Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt (1962), Ullstein Verlag (1981); Italy - Einaudi (1961); Israel - משרד הבטחון; Poland - Panstwowy Instytut Wydawniczy (1961); Slovakia - Slovenské vydavatelstvo krásnej literatúry (1962); Spain - Editorial Mateu (1962); UK - Cresset Press (1963), Cambridge University Press (1967); USA - Pantheon Books (1962),
Set in 1960's Russia, the novel tells the story of Kira Georgievna, a middle-aged successful sculptor, passively married to Nikolai, a much older painter. Each completely engrossed in their work, they become entirely emotionally detached from one another. At this point we meet Vadim, the man Kira was engaged to marry twenty-five years earlier. Their plan was destroyed upon Vadim's arrest by the Solviet police, which earned him a twenty-year sentence in Siberia. Now married with a five-year-old son, his curiosity leads...
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