Presentation
Émilie Aubry, editor-in-chief of Le dessous des cartes on Arte, and William Marx, Professor of Comparative Literatures at the Collège de France, will be in conversation with Orhan Pamuk, winner of the 2006 Nobel Prize for Literature, for a special evening organized as part of the new partnership between the Collège de France and Arte.
Orhan Pamuk will be videoconferencing from New York, with simultaneous translation into French.
The event will focus on the real and imaginary links between Turkey and Europe, and their mirror images, from geopolitics to literature.
The oscillation between East and West is at the heart of Orhan Pamuk's work. Tensions, misunderstandings, confrontations, but also mutual fascination, borrowings and fruitful exchanges, multiple dialogues, have shaped the relationship between Europe and its great Ottoman and then Turkish neighbor for centuries. What can the great writer from Istanbul, a pivotal city if ever there was one, tell us about this relationship today, almost 100 years after the Treaty of Sèvres and the rise to power of the Young Turks?
