Always defeated, always standing: ridiculous or admirable, what do Don Quixote’s battles against the windmills of a world that doesn’t go round tell us? Lydie Salvayre and Danielle Perrot-Corpet will help us “dream on our feet” of the world we’d like to invent.
Lydie Salvayre has a dual career: as well as being a well-known writer, she studied medicine at the University of Aix-Marseille and practiced psychiatry and child psychiatry in Bouc-Bel Air and Paris.
A major figure in contemporary literature, she won the Prix Goncourt in 2014 for her novel Pas pleurer (Editions du seuil).
In 2025, the publication of her latest work, Autoportrait à l’encre noire (published by Robert Laffont), was an opportunity to look back on a personal trajectory that made Quixote one of her fellow travelers. In 2021, in Rêver Debout (éditions du Seuil), she takes up the defense of the vigilante knight in an epistolary novel addressed to Cervantes, reproaching him for all the harm he does to his justice-loving knight: a manifesto book as much as a vibrant tribute to the necessary utopias embodied by this universal hero.
Always defeated, always standing: ridiculous or admirable, what do Don Quixote’s battles against the windmills of a world that doesn’t go round tell us? Lydie Salvayre and Danielle Perrot-Corpet will help us “dream on our feet” of the world we’d like to invent.
Lydie Salvayre has a dual career: as well as being a well-known writer, she studied medicine at the University of Aix-Marseille and practiced psychiatry and child psychiatry in Bouc-Bel Air and Paris.
A major figure in contemporary literature, she won the Prix Goncourt in 2014 for her novel Pas pleurer (Editions du seuil).
In 2025, the publication of her latest work, Autoportrait à l’encre noire (published by Robert Laffont), was an opportunity to look back on a personal trajectory that made Quixote one of her fellow travelers. In 2021, in Rêver Debout (éditions du Seuil), she takes up the defense of the vigilante knight in an epistolary novel addressed to Cervantes, reproaching him for all the harm he does to his justice-loving knight: a manifesto book as much as a vibrant tribute to the necessary utopias embodied by this universal hero.
