Boris Pahor

• On: 15.11.2008
• In: Paris

Slovenian writer on the Tour de France of European writers

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November 15th 2008

Practical

At the Théâtre de l'Odéon

Boris Pahor was born in Trieste in 1913. For a long time he was forecast as a possible winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His commitment against fascism and totalitarian regimes is very present in his work. Pahor considers it a miracle that he survived death camps.
He evokes this experience in Pilgrim in the shadows (published as Pélerin parmi les ombres in a French translation by Andrée Lück-Gaye, La Table ronde 1996). Very attached to his native city, he then wrote a Triestin trilogy- a haunting epic relating the history of the 20th century in Struggling with Spring, Dark Days and In the Labyrinth (published in French by Phébus, 1995, 2001 and 2003 in a translation by A. Lück-Gaye and A. Bernard).
The Call of the Ship, a novel published this year, blends several types and is about the difficult integration of Slovenian immigrants in Mussolini's Italy.

Saturday, November 15th:
- 11:00, Théâtre de l'Odéon, main auditorium
Moderator: Sylvain Bourmeau, literary journalist
Interpreter: Judith Karinthi
Meeting organized with the support of the Hungarian Cultural Institute and INALCO's Central and Eastern European Department in partnership with the Théâtre de l'Odéon, Courrier International and Mediapart
Théâtre de l'Odéon
Place de l'Odéon - Paris 6

• Updated: 30.12.2008

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