Gaël Faye im Gespräch mit Raphaëlle Red

In the organizer's words:

Gaël Faye in conversation with Raphaëlle Red about his novel "Jacaranda"

As a young man, Milan travels to Kigali in Rwanda for the first time. The country where his mother comes from and which he only knows from the news. He tries to break his family's silence, which has been practiced for so many generations, and begins to understand that the people of Rwanda are still recovering from the past - the genocide against the Tutsi.

In his debut novel "Petit pays" ("Small Country"), the French-Rwandan writer and singer Gaël Faye deals with his own childhood in Burundi, the beginning of the civil war and his family's flight to France. "Jacaranda" (Piper; translation: Andrea Alvermann and Brigitte Große) picks up on this with the story of post-war society. How do the after-effects of the war settle in the following generations and how can the present and the future be contested with this past? This novel, which was awarded the Prix Renaudot and the Choix Goncourt de l'Allemagne, is about remembering against repression and trauma. "Stylistically brilliant" (taz), Gaël Faye finds "an immediate language for the monstrous" (SWR2, "Lesenswert").

Raphaëlle Red, who made her debut with "Adikou" in 2024, will moderate.

On September 23, the Institut français will be showing the film adaptation of "Petit pays" at the cinéclub. With a reading ticket, you will receive a free drink afterwards.

Price information:

€ 16,-/12,-/6,- Livestream