PARIS WRITERS' SALON 10
NIGHT SONGS FOR THE SLEEPLESS*
4 virtual literary salons (1.5 hour sessions), including lectures, Q&A, and group discussions on Sundays at 1pm EST (7pm CET), Sep. 3, Sep. 10, Sep. 24, Oct. 1 (2023)
Chaired by author & creative writing professor Samuél Lopez-Barrantes & Paris-based author John Baxter.
Enrolment limited to 20 guests.
The four-week program costs 300 Euros. This price includes access to all lectures (as well as their recordings)
Sunday, Sep. 3—All the Light We Cannot See (2014)
In Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the stories of an imaginatively gifted blind girl in France and a technically precocious young man in Germany intersect in a crucial battle taking place in the Channel coastal city of Saint-Malo.
Sunday, Sep. 10—The Fall (1956)
The Fall was the last completed novel by one of the giants of modern French literature and thought, Albert Camus. (He died in 1960 in an auto accident, aged only 47, three years after winning the Nobel Prize.) Clamence, the Parisian jurist through whose eyes Camus sees the war and its aftermath, struggles with the same sense of futility that motivated Sartre, originally Camus's closest friend (then his rival) to develop existentalism.
Sunday, Sep. 24—Five Nights in Paris(2005)
John Baxter explores some of the ways in which Paris after dark becomes a very different city. Using examples ranging from Woody Allen to the surrealist Philippe Soupault, he shows how the certainties of a tourist Paris give way after dark to something more fantastic and dream-like, ruled by the unlikely and improbable. documents the clash between rival concepts of morality that continues in France to this day.
Sunday, October 1—Open Forum Salon
As usual, the last session opens up to thoughts and suggestions. If earlier salons are any guide, the conversation will range far and wide and provide a lively discussion to bookend the tenth rendition of the Paris Writers’ Salon.
To reserve your spot, simply send your enrolment payment via PayPal to john@johnbaxterparis.com
* The title comes from a poem by the lesser-known “Beat” poet Lawrence Lipton. Here it is, read in a particularly fruity manner by the actor John Carradine, to the music of the Chico Hamilton Quintet.
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