Hédi Kaddour: "The night of orators", the power of words in Ancient Rome

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Hédi Kaddour.

© Francesca Mantovani (c) Editions Gallimard 8813

By: Pascal Paradou

30 mins

What power for words during the reign of Emperor Domitian?

With "The night of the speakers", Hédi Kaddour plunges us into Ancient Rome, in the 1st century AD, where senators and lawyers will clash to defend their life, their ideas, their convictions.  

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Guest:

Hédi Kaddour,

translator, author of several collections of poetry.

La Nuit des orateurs 

(Éditions Gallimard) is his 4th novel.

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