Thu 2 Mar
Literature and Animality: Zoopoetic Renewals with Anne Simon
Mois de la Francophonie UK-Wide
What is more specifically human – more characteristic of our species – than literature? Myths, poems and novels bring our linguistic practices to their highest degree of complexity: classical rhythms, unrealistic metaphors, texts that echo each other seem to oppose literature to animality.
This division needs to be put into perspective. Based on the expressiveness of animals, on our own animality, on our roaring and snaking alphabet, on the self-portraits of writers as owls, ants or flies, the Anne Simon, Director of research at the CNRS, will explain what “zoopoetics” is. Literature, far from cutting us off from the world, is a populated, welcoming and vital ark.
Thu 2 March 6pm | Free | in French | Institut français d’Ecosse
