Does the expression of a truth of self in the autobiography, a Rousseau invention, still have the same meaning today?
Mazarine Pingeot is a writer and teaches philosophy at the University of Paris 8 and the IEP of Bordeaux. She regularly explores in her novels the themes of the family, of childhood, through a writing that addresses the intimate and autobiography while defending the right to privacy. She is the author of many novels, including Bouche Cousue (Julliard, 2005), Pour mémoire (Julliard, 2011), Se taire (Julliard, 2019), Et la peur continue (Mialet Barrault, 2021). She published The Dictatorship of Transparency with Robert Laffont in 2016.
Nathalie Kuperman received the Closerie des Lilas award for Les raisons de mon crime (Gallimard, 2012), she is also the author of La loi sauvage, Nous était des êtres vivants (Gallimard, 2014), I am the kind of girl (Gallimard, 2018), On était des poissons (Flammarion, 2021). Nathalie Kuperman’s incisive style excels at putting her finger on the roughness of the contemporary world. All in precision, subtlety, without concession - and with humour.
"The deal was to tell the whole truth. However, I needed to go through fiction, otherwise it would have no interest." Nathalie Kuperman
Moderator: Nathalie Gendrot
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.