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René de Ceccaty

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011 | 6:00 pm | Lecture | @ AF de Miami

Aimer: une fiction douce?
To be in love: a soft fiction?
Lecture by Rene de Ceccatty

Tuesday, March 1st, 2011, 6:00-7:30 PM.
At The Alliance Francaise

Cheese and wine will be served

A lecture and discussion will be led by Rene Ceccatty about his books. The conversation will be conducted in French and English by Ralph Heyndels, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Miami (Department of Modern Languages and Literatures)

RENE DE CECCATTY was born in Tunis in 1952. He is the author of about thirty novels (L’Accompagnement, L’Or et la poussière, Aimer, Fiction douce) published at Gallimard and Editions du Seuil, and of numerous essays and biographies (Violette Leduc, Pasolini, Maria Callas, and most recently Alberto Moravia published by Flammarion in 2010). In April 2011 will appear Noir souci (Flammarion), on the last days of Leopardi. He has extensively written on Jean Genet, contributes to Le Monde des livres, and is member of the Reading Committee of Editions du Seuil. He has translated Italian writers, and, in collaboration with Ryôji Nakamura, Japanese classical and modern novelists. He has also published several theater plays. Three of his works have been translated in Spanish, including L’Accompagnement by Hugo Achugar at Trilce (Montevideo). The discussion will be conducted in French by Ralph Heyndels, Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of Miami, but questions may be asked in English, as Rene de Ceccatty understands and speaks fluently English.