Crossing the stories of Adelheid Duvanel | Eléonore de Duve & Adrien Lafille

The workshop will be led by Éléonore de Duve and Adrien Lafille, who will together read texts by the Swiss writer Adelheid Duvanel (1936–1996). Based on these short stories, each of which forms a singular moment, an organized set of sensations and affects, they will offer a time of reading, discussion, and collective work. The voices that run through these texts are anchored in small places and situations that carry all their expression and rarity in one block. In 2018, two collections by Adelheid Duvanel were published by Vies Parallèles. Since 2023, her texts have been progressively published by Éditions Corti, in translations by Catherine Fagnot. Éléonore de Duve Éléonore de Duve was born in Belgium in 1989. With her novels Donato and Sophia (Corti), she attempts to answer the question: how can literature restore their lives to the disappeared? Adrien Lafille Adrien Lafille (born in 1986) has notably published Le Feu extérieur and La Maladie de l'eau (Corti). Adrien Lafille (born in 1986) lives in the Paris region and studied philosophy at Paris Nanterre. After two novels with Éditions Vanloo, he publishes Le Feu extérieur (Corti, 2024) and La Maladie de l'eau (Corti, 2026), as well as :kappa:, co-written with Anaël Castelein (Rrose editions).