Reading | Fille / It's a girl, Camille Laurens

French author Camille Laurens is coming to the Centre Culturel Français to read from her book "Fille" (Gallimard, 2022)!

"Do you have children?" the father is asked. "No, I have two girls," he replies. - This scene is one of the first memories of a woman growing up in bourgeois circumstances in Rouen around 1960. What follows is a life that seems exemplary for her generation: Laurence frees herself from the confines of her parents' home, experiences sexual freedom, but also violence; she loses a son at birth and gives birth to a daughter. And with this daughter, who defies all role ascriptions, something opens up - also for Laurence and her life as a woman. From the particular fate of a woman, this cleverly constructed novel deduces what follows in general after it says: "It's a girl."

Camille Laurens, born in Dijon in 1957, has received numerous awards for her novels, also writes plays and essays and teaches at Sciences Po. She has been a member of the Académie Goncourt since 2020, succeeding Virginie Despentes.

"Exactly as powerful as Annie Ernaux." - Hamburger Abendblatt

Tuesday, November 12 | 7:00 pm
CCFF
Admission: € 9 | € 6
Language: F/D
Registration: kultur@ccf-fr.de
Moderation: Dr. Anna Sennefelder, France Center and Institute for Media Culture Studies
In cooperation with: Frankreich Zentrum
As part of the thematic series: (Invisible) Work / Travail (invisible)