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Alliance française de Delhi, in association with the French Embassy in India, presents:
Writers, etc. - Inaugural Session
Vikram Seth
in conversation with Sam Miller
Thursday, 3 February 2011, 6:30 p.m.
at M.L. Bhartia Auditorium,
It is with great enthusiasm that we bring you a new forum at Alliance Française de Delhi! On 3rd Feb, we look forward to welcoming you to the inaugural evening of Writers, etc.
Writers, etc. is our literary platform: a space where the written word gets primacy, where written ideas and heir practitioners can interact with each other and the general public, coming together to ask pertinent questions and seek their answers: what role does literature play in contemporary societies? How do writers see their responsibilities vis-à-vis the public and, turning that over, how do we see writers? How has the written word adapted to its place among the growing pantheon of varied and addictive forms of cultural transmission? The aim is to encourage a discovery, unencumbered by genre, of all the written oeuvres, ranging from living legends to new and emerging talent. Our inaugural event will begin with one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Indian writing: Vikram Seth. He needs little by way of introduction; his second novel A Suitable Boy (1993) literally reconfigured the rules of Indian writing. His subsequent works revealed the sheer power of meticulous prose with a poetic lyricism; firmly establishing his reputation as one of the most original writers of a generation.
For more information, please call us at 011 43 500 222 / 230 / 217 or send an email at: culture@afdelhi.org.
Ciné - Club May: Festival de Cannes
City:
Delhi
Location: 72 Lodi Estate
Date: Fri, 2012/05/25 - 5:30pm
Price: Free entry - Rights of admission reserved
Category: Film screening
Duration:
Location: 72 Lodi Estate
Date: Fri, 2012/05/25 - 5:30pm
Price: Free entry - Rights of admission reserved
Category: Film screening
Duration:
Un homme qui crie / A Screaming Man
Friday, 25 May 2012
5.30 & 7.30 pm
Director : Mahamat Saleh Haroun
2010, 92 min
What a terrible sacrifice can you do to keep your job? How far can you go to preserve the fragile balance of your life? The fourth film by Chadian Mahamat-Saleh Haroun asks these two major questions through a story of a luminous simplicity. The old lifeguard from a luxury hotel in N’Djamena, a former swimming champion for whom the pool has been all his life, is relegated to minor jobs. His son, more dynamic, has supplanted him. But a civil war is raging, a war between rival factions, without a right or a wrong camp, like a monster never satisfied, demanding its human toll.
The subject of this fable borrowed from Neorealism: indeed it deals with the matter of conscience of an oppressed man pushed to the limited, just like in silent films. The decommissioning of the hero also recalls The Last Laugh, one of the masterpieces of the German filmmaker Murnau.
The strength of the film resides in the permanent alternation between everyday situations and mythological references. This dual space has to be inhabited by powerful actors: Youssof Djaoro has a quiet strength, almost like the characters of John Ford. His pain is chilling us, and even more the verses by Aimé Césaire at the end of the film, explaining its title: “Beware of crossing your arms in the sterile pose of a spectator, for life is not a show on stage (…), for a screaming human being is not a dancing bear…”
In the 2010 Cannes Festival, the jurors have read these lines, have uncrossed their arms and A Screaming Man has won the Jury Prize.
For more information, please send an email to culture_comm@afdelhi.org
