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Maylis de Kerangal

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15.11.2024

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  • Maylis de Kerangal

Maylis de Kerangal offers a special reading at the Villa Medici to mark the publication of her latest novel, Jour de ressac, published by Verticales.


“Finally, does our man look familiar? As we approached Gonfreville-l’Orcher, the refinery was emerging from the ground, indecipherable and nebulous, like Gotham City, another city behind the city, I rolled down my window and took a long, deep breath, my nose turned towards the distillation towers, towards this demented Meccano. The strange stench wafted into the car, a mixture of hydrocarbons, salt and powder. He told me to close the door, and then asked me again, why had I finally asked to see the body? You must have thought about it, something must have come back to you. Yes, I had thought about it. What was he thinking? I’d done practically nothing but think about it since this morning, but thinking about it had ended up taking the shape of a city, a first love, the shape of a container ship.” Maylis de Kerangal, Jour de ressac, ed.Verticales, 2024.

This reading follows the day-long international colloquium “Ecrivain.e.s – sociologues organized by Sapienza Università di Roma and held at Villa Medici on Friday November 15.

Practical information

Friday, November 15
6:30 pm
Grand salon de la Villa Médicis Free: reservation required

Maylis de Kerangal

Maylis de Kerangal is the author of some fifteen novels and short stories, mostly published by Éditions Verticales/Gallimard and translated into many languages. These include Corniche Kennedy (2008), Naissance d’un pont (2010), a fictional account of a major construction site in an imaginary city, and Tangente vers l’Est (2012), a fictional account of a trip on the Trans-Siberian Railway. In 2014, Réparer les vivants, a novel about a heart transplant, won a dozen literary prizes, including the Prix des Étudiants France-Culture Télérama and the Grand Prix RTL-Lire, and was adapted for film and theater. Published the same year, À ce stade de la nuit, a nocturne about shipwrecks in the Mediterranean received the Prix Boccace in 2016. In 2018, she published Un monde à portée de main, an introductory novel to painting that questions creation. In addition, her books follow a more documentary orientation, such as Un chemin de table (Seuil 2016) or Kiruna (La Contre-Allée 2019). In May 2021, she will publish Canoës (Verticales), dedicated to the exploration of the human voice. Her latest novel, Jour de ressac (Verticales), was published in 2024.

Sociological writers

15.11.2024

  • Artistes :
  • Marielle Macé
  • Aurélie Adler
  • Marine Aubry-Morici
  • Arno Bertina
  • Elisa Bricco
  • Valerio Cordiner
  • Maylis de Kerangal
  • Andrea Del Lungo
  • Laurent Demanze
  • Delphine Edy
  • Aurore Labadie
  • Karine Légeron
  • Aurore Labadie
  • Francesca Lorandini
  • Marielle Macé
  • Jérôme Meizoz
  • Wanda Pendrié
  • Nathalie Piégay
  • Dominique Rabaté
  • Gisèle Sapiro
  • Sylvie Servoise
  • Joy Sorman
  • Paolo Tamassia
  • Martine Van Geertruijden
  • Dominique Viart
  • Ilaria Vidotto

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