TELLING
For this Poetry Platform session, under the title “Conter/Telling”, the anthropologist Daniel Fabre, whose early works were devoted to stories and storytellers, will talk with the novelist Danielle Mémoire, whose unique master work, the “corpus”, is marked by a spirit of permanent reprise and inventiveness.
Daniel Fabre is an ethnologist and anthropologist. He is director of studies at the EHESS, where he co-directs the Interdisciplinary Institute of Anthropology of the Contemporary.
After starting with research into oral literature, which established his
reputation, in particular through the collection and analysis of Occitan tales,
he steered his works towards rural communities and carnivals, while at the same opening up the contemporary field of the anthropology of ordinary writings. His current interests have to do with the modern forms of the cult of the artist and writer, the anthropology of the arts and literature, and the European history of the ethnological way of looking at things.
Danielle Mémoire is a novelist. Her work has no equivalent in terms of its rigour, and the confusion and fantasy that it gives rise to.
