Festival d'Avignon, praise of freedom by Felwine Sarr
Audio 28:59
Felwine Sarr, writer, economist, professor of philosophy and actor in the show "Liberty, I would have lived your dream until the last evening" by Dorcy Rugamba © Antoine Tempé
By: Pascal Paradou
31 min
Felwine Sarr, René Char, Frantz Fanon: three thoughts, three committed men who have chosen writing, poetry as the art of affirmation, resistance and freedom.
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Guest: Felwine SARR
,
economist, author, Senegalese speaker, co-founder of the
Ateliers de la Pensée
in Dakar.
Also poet, musician and theater writer.
Since 2020, he has been teaching contemporary and diasporic African philosophy at Duke University (United States).
Actor and director with
Dorcy Rugamba
of the show "Liberty, I will have lived in your dream until the last evening".
I write for the sake of lucidity.
Writing helps to make a mark, to leave something, a transmission "
Photo taken from the show "Freedom, I will have lived your dream until the last evening" © Christophe Raynaud de Lage / Festival d'Avignon
You don't know a writer, you become one.
we are nourished by them.
I was a great reader, I wanted to be like them "Felwine Sarr
Frantz Fanon (1925-1961), psychiatrist, activist and writer from Martinique.
A leading figure in the anti-colonial and anti-racist struggle.
His main works:
Black skins, white masks
(Seuil, 1952) and
The Damned of the Earth
(Maspero, 1961)
René Char, (1907-1988), French poet and resistance fighter.
Author of numerous works including
Marteau sans maître
,
Feuillets d'Hypnos
,
Partage Formel.
And the report by
Alexandra Jaegy
on the show,
Moi, Tituba sorcière ... Noire de Salem
by and with Danielle Gabou, adapted from
the eponymous novel
by
author Maryse Condé (Alternative Nobel Prize in 2018).
The show takes place in the "OFF" from July 17 to 24 at the
Théâtre de la Chapelle du Verbe Incarné.
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