Festival d'Avignon, praise of freedom by Felwine Sarr

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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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