Do you read Belgian? Violaine Lison's literary breakfast

Violaine Lison lives in Tournai. A teacher, she loves passing on her passion for literature to her students. Together, they write poems and plays which she then stages. "The forest, memory, the trace, the unexpected are her walking companions. With them, she creates and carves out a language to inhabit." (esperluete.be) Avec Lequel of us will carry the other? (éditions Esperluète), Violaine won the independent bookstores prize this year. We will focus on this singular work, its conception, its writing, and the happy coincidences of life. About ten years ago, Violaine was entrusted with the war diaries of Léonce, a young seminarian from Tournai who became a stretcher-bearer during World War I. These diaries were accompanied by objects that belonged to the young man: greatcoat buttons, pocket knife, rosary... So many little pebbles carefully gathered by Violaine that give flesh to Léonce. From this conversation (more than a century apart!) between Léonce and Violaine, we emerge stunned by the beautiful and powerful emotions that inhabit Léonce, the depth of his family attachments, the wondrous description of nature, and of course the absurd atrocity of war. Free. Registration 019/32.29.29 or bibliotheque@waremme.be