Avignon Festival: René Char and Frantz Fanon against the “stunted dreams” of our time
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Final of the Freedom game, I will have lived in your dream until the last evening, presented at the Festival d'Avignon.
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One was a poet and resistant.
The other a psychiatrist, also resistant and militant anti-colonialist.
René Char and Frantz Fanon are brought up to date at the Festival d'Avignon with
Liberté, I will have lived your dream until the last evening
, a show written by the Senegalese economist and philosopher Felwine Sarr and directed by the Rwandan Dorcy Rugamba.
A nuanced and musical piece, in partnership with France Médias Monde until July 20 at the Lambert collection.
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From our special correspondent in Avignon
,
In Avignon,
Felwine Sarr
celebrates the commitment, lucidity and nuances of
René Char
, alias Captain Alexandre in the Resistance, and
Frantz Fanon
, alias Ibrahim Omar during the Algerian war.
Two authors who are two antidotes to the “
stunted dreams
” of our time, in the words of Felwine Sarr.
“
I found them absolutely inspiring in times of crisis and upheaval, in the way they faced the trials that were theirs and the fact that they did not give up on imprinting their lives.
They did not let themselves be locked in the twilight atmosphere that could have been theirs,
”said the Senegalese economist and philosopher.
Dorcy Rugamba is the Rwandan director of the play.
"
It is this idea of the universality of literature, not to imprison it in an era or in a debate so that in this reading, everyone can be mirrored whatever their fate or their situation
", he said.
On stage, the music of Senegalese TIE and Majnun also underlines the contemporary aspect of the poetry of René Char and Frantz Fanon.
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