Stéphanie Coste, Le Passeur, Gallimard, 2021
When we have done, as Seyoum cynically says, “hope our business”, become one of the biggest smugglers on the Libyan coast, and have our brains devoured by khat and alcohol, are we still capable of humanity? This is the whole question that arises when an umpteenth convoy arrives filled with desperate candidates for the crossing. With this particular convoy, his family, destroyed by the dictatorship in Eritrea, forced into the Sawa camp, torture scenes, flight, imprisonment, his lost love, all of a sudden goes back to the past. Through the crossed destinies of these migrants and their executioner, Stéphanie Coste paints a great fresco of the history of a bruised continent. His writing of an incredible strength, cut to the serpe, in a panting rhythm takes us to the depths of the madness of men.
Moderator: Danielle Maurelle, literary mediator hosts many meetings and debates at festivals and book fairs in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region. It has been presenting for several years the literary revival organized by the Regional Book Agency (ARALL)
In partnership with Plurielles Lectures.
Event organized as part of the Vis-à-Vis Festival (4-5 June, 2-3 July, 17-18 September) at the Charmettes. Designed with the Circolo dei lettori in Turin.