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Paroles d’auteur
François Beaune

Wednesday, October 27, 2010
6pm

FIAF Haskell Library
Part of FIAF's New Literary Series: Write About Now
Co-presented with Bookforum and The Villa Gillet

In French. Moderated by Violaine Huisman.


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C’est le roman de la rentrée…Le Figaro magazine

Jamais sentencieux, toujours drôle, Un homme louche fait le pari d’un foisonnement lyrique et fantaisiste … Un roman épatant et un auteur à suivre. Les Inrockuptibles

As part of the Write About Now series, FIAF’s Haskell Library will host an intimate talk in French with François Beaune before his 7:30pm Le Skyroom event. En français !

Critically acclaimed throughout France by the likes of Elle and Les Inrockuptibles, Un homme louche affirms Francois Beaune as an accomplished author, as well as contemporary blogger and cultural commentator. Contributing to an already substantial list of literary accomplishments, Un homme louche announces Beaune’s career as worth following.

François Beaune
Né en 1978 à Clermont-Ferrand, François Beaune continue une carrière précoce qui comprend déjà plusieurs revues et un feuilleton numérique, Les Bonnes Nouvelles de Jacques Dauphin. Avec son blog d’actualités satyriques (loucheactu.blogspot.com), il représenteles nouvelles de la semaine, tournant en dérision le climat politique et quotidien. Également actif dans le domaine de la culture, il a fondé le festival « Du cinéma à l’envers » (maintenant dans sa troisième année) qui propose aux réalisateurs d’imaginer un film autour d’une affiche déjà créé. Dans le domaine théâtral, il a écrit une pièce inédite de théâtre, Victoria, qui a été représentée à Lyon, où il habite actuellement.

Un homme louche est son premier roman.

Author Bio in English—Read here
Born in Clermont Ferrand, France in 1978, Francois Beaune’s career covers myriad aspects of contemporary culture. Among the founders of « Du cinema à l’envers » (now in its third year), a festival encouraging new directors to film from a given visual theme, he remains active in multiple cooperative initiatives fusing the arts with the happenings of contemporary quotidien. To date, Beaune’s résumé is populated by on and off-line projects including several blogs and revues fueled by both collaborative and autonomous initiatives. With his blog Loucheactu and his serial Bonnes Nouvelles de Jacques Dauphin, he couples news clippings with clever commentary and a biting wit that is as provocative as it is entertaining. He also drafted an unedited theatrical piece, Victoria, which has already been staged in Lyon, where he now lives. Un homme louche is his first novel.

Son œuvre 
Drôle et adroit, Un homme louche comprend deux parties, deux petits journaux de la vie de Jean-Daniel Dugommier. Le premier cahier s’adresse à son adolescence dans les années 1980, avant d’être interné. Écrit vingt-cinq ans plus tard, le deuxième cahier raconte l’histoire d’un adulte qui s’éloigne de son passé, de ses amis et de sa vie tout en tentant de comprendre le monde chaotique autour de lui. Les deux journaux présentent la vie d’un homme ni tout à fait cynique, ni trop critique, qui s’exprime avec facilité malgré ses faiblesses. Dans cette œuvre, Beaune s’exprime sur un ton varié mais fluide, racontant une intrigue insolite sans heurt, remarquable surtout pour son humour inventif et percutant. De ce fait, Un homme louche « louche» sur des thèmes complexes sans employer un langage trop complexe ni promouvoir une moralité prétentieuse. À la fois personnel et privé, poétiquement singulier mais ponctué par l’ordinaire, Un homme louche parle aux lecteurs divers avec une voix double, et se penche sur les thèmes universels tout en focalisant sur l’individuel.

Book Synopsis in English—Read here
In a conversational and reporting style, Un homme louche provides readers with a diary divided into two parts, chronicling two formative periods in the fictional life of Jean-Daniel Dugommier. The first book collects the entries of an introverted adolescent, confronting the world before being cut-off and committed to a mental health facility at the age of 14. The second book revisits the same Dugommier, after a 25-year time lapse and additional perspective on what constitutes “normalcy.”  In this latter part, entitled L’homme en question, he struggles with a now alienated past and a bewildering present, as well as loneliness, loss and otherwise complex emotions associated with each. Peppered with wit and intelligence, Un homme louche navigates a variety of tonal, time, and plot shifts with remarkable ease and effusive pull. As engaging as it is thought-provoking, Beaune’s work explores the universal in the context of the individual, thereby providing a case study of daily culture.

Violaine Huisman, Moderator
Violaine Huisman is Humanities Manager at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Before assuming this position she worked as an editor and rights director with Seven Stories Press and as a literary agent with Sterling Lord Literistic. She has served as an English language interpreter for French writers and artists, and her translations from the French have appeared in various publications, including the New York Times Magazine.

 

Single Event
FIAF Members $10
Non-Members $15

2-Event Packages*
FIAF Members $15
Non-Members $20

Venue
FIAF Haskell Library
22 East 60th Street
New York, NY 10022

*Includes Paroles d’auteur and related Skyroom event held the same day only

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Special thanks to Bookforum and The Villa Gillet.

Write About Now is supported in part by Montblanc.

Fall 2010 Season Sponsors: American Airlines, the official airline of FIAF; Cultural Services of the French Embassy; Culturesfrance; Florence Gould Foundation; National Endowment for the Arts; New York City Department of Cultural Affairs; New York State Council on the Arts, a State agency; The Bay and Paul Foundations; Robert de Rothschild; The Laura Pels Foundation; and Dr. Michael Siegal

Image: François Beaune / © Hélie Gallimard

 



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