This cultural and scientific event brings together personalities from the worlds of literature, art, cinema and social sciences to discuss the "sad figure" of Don Quixote, as funny as he is moving.
We’ll walk through the exhibition together, following some of the paths it takes, before a literary evening where we’ll dream on our feet in the company of writer Lydie Salvayre and all the day’s participants. 10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m. Opening lecture -Why read Don Quixote today? William Marx questions our times through the eyes of the visionary, mischievous hero that is Don Quixote. William Marx is Professor of Comparative Literature at the Collège de France. He questions the...
2:30 to 3:45 p.m. – To be a donkey or to become a goat? Don Quixote is funny, which means he’s both hilarious and bizarre. The laughter aroused by the knight’s extravagant illusions is complex, endearing and caustic: let’s laugh at him, let’s laugh with him, let’s laugh at ourselves!
4:00 pm to 6:00 pm – The author, between reality and fiction World Copyright Day has been set for April 23, in homage to Cervantes. Yet no one has been more translated, plagiarized, hijacked and reinvented. We look back at the concrete and sometimes unexpected questions that the author’s authority poses for us, from the ingenuity of our hidalgo to the Artificial Intelligence of the 21st century.
6:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. – Meet the authors in the Forum Get together and sign books with the day’s authors and artists, authors from the Don Quichotte catalog and Lydie Salvayre.
In partnership with EHESS, IMERA and Université d’Aix-Marseille