The Mousquetextes like to share their literary discoveries by offering public readings to libraries, schools and cultural institutions, associations and any public or private organisation that wishes to host them.
They can also come to your home for convivial reading evenings.
Based in Dijon, they travel throughout Burgundy and beyond.
For the choice of readings, see the section Catalogue of readings.
To contact them: mousquetextes.dijon@gmail.com
READINGS IN TOWN 2022/2023
Swann's Way
Marcel Proust
Friday 16 September 6.30pm
Sunday 18th - 5pm
Hôtel de Vogüé - 8, rue de la Chouette
This episode of La recherche du temps perdu depicts the birth of Swann's passion and jealousy for Odette. It shows how the little phrase from Vinteuil's sonata becomes like "the national tune of their love".
It is also the first description of Parisian society with the "little clan" of the Verdurins
Readers: Robert Coulon, Jean Prévôt
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On the line
Joseph Ponthus
Thursday 27 October18:30
Sunday 30 at 5pm
Salle haute du Cellier de Clairvaux - 27, boulevard de la Trémouille
For two years, Joseph Ponthus has transcribed his stories of working as a temp in Brittany, from the fish canneries to the slaughterhouse. Sometimes with harshness, sometimes with tenderness. Sometimes with gravity, sometimes with derision. The result is À la ligne, feuillets d'usine, written like a long poem without punctuation, which bears witness to the working condition of our time.
Readers: Béni Bujadoux, Jane Huberdeau-Veillet
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The night as an address
Maud Simonnot
Wednesday 23 November - 18:30
Thursday 24 November - 6.30pm
Academy Hall
5 rue de l'école de Droit
Who knows Robert McAlman today? This gifted writer, who was a friend of Kiki, Man Ray and Aragon, an invaluable support to Joyce and Hemingway's first editor, to whom he introduced Spain, has died forgotten by all.
Following in the footsteps of her hero, Maud Simonnot takes us behind the scenes of the Lost Generation in a lively, moving story that gives Robert McAlmon his rightful place.
Readers - Joëlle Douhaire-Bataille, Jane Huberdeau-Veillet
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For an earth of ten billion inhabitants
Albert jacquard
Thursday 1 December - 6.30pm
Friday 2 December - 6.30pm
Academy Hall
5 rue de l'école de Droit
Can our earth support ten billion people? Can such a large humanity not sink into obscurantism, not destroy itself? Under what conditions?
Albert Jacquard, a world-renowned biologist, attempts to answer these questions in an impassioned lecture given during the Night of the Stars, in the summer of 1997, at the Festival du Ciel et de l'Espace.
Readers: Robert Coulon, Pierre Lambert
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As part of the festival Les Nuits d'Orient
The scent of flowers at night
Leïla Slimani
Wednesday 7 December - 8pm
MJC - CS Montchapet
8 rue Louis Ganne
Author of novels, notably Chanson douce for which she won the Goncourt prize in 2016, she does not like to leave her home, she prefers solitude to distraction... However, she will accept a proposal that is, to say the least, in contradiction with her resolutions: to spend a sleepless night in a museum in Venice: "La pointe e la douane de mer" (The point of the sea customs) and to write The scent of the flowers at night, a discreet and modest confession in which she evokes her father and her life between the Orient and the Occident
The reading will be followed by a debate led by the Maison de la Méditerranée over a glass of friendship offered by the MJC-Centre Social Montchapet
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The use of the world
Nicolas Bouvier
Friday 6 January - 6.30pm
Sunday 8 - 5pm
Hôtel de Vogüé
8 rue de la Chouette
In the fifties, two friends travel from Europe to Asia. A journey whose principle is the slowness which allows the meeting of men and their culture. This story evokes the landscapes with poetry, making us discover ever-changing worlds, as the terrain and the seasons change. Today, this work has become a great classic of travel literature.
Readers: Stéphane Bujadoux, Joëlle Douhaire-Bataille
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Géronimo has a bad back
Guy Goffette
Friday 3 February - 6.30pm
Sunday 5 - 5pm
Hôtel de Vogüé
8 rue de la Chouette
A strange title that sets the tone of the book, both light and serious, tender and painful. "It is a book that cost me" says Guy Goffette. Simon, the author's imaginary double, recomposes his father's past and the story of what separated them for so long. All the poetry of Guy Goffette in this autofictional novel.
Readers: Jane Huberdeau-Veillet, Michèle Massin
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Bandini
John Fante
Friday 3 March 18:30 As part of the Italiart Festival
Hôtel de Vogüé
8 rue de la Chouette
And Friday 10 March - 6.30pm
MJC - CS Montchapet
8 rue Louis Ganne
In this work, the author evokes the story of his Italian family who emigrated to the United States, where two opposing cultures meet and where the hope of success for those who can integrate into this "new world" is evoked.
Readers: Robert Coulon - Didier Leyour
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What happened to the white savage
François Garde
Friday 7 April and Sunday 9 April - 5pm
Upper room of the Clairvaux Cellar
27 boulevard de la Trémouille
In the middle of the 19th century, Narcisse Pelletier, a young 14 year old ship's boy, is abandoned by the ship's crew on a beach in Australia. He is taken in by a tribe of aborigines.
17 years later, an English ship found him by chance. He can no longer speak French and has forgotten his name.
This story confronts us with a questioning of the price to be paid for adapting and the way we look at the culture of the "other".
Questions that are still relevant today!
Readers: Beni Bujadoux, Joëlle Douhaire-Bataille
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The first man
Albert Camus
Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 May - 6.30pm
Hôtel de Vogüé
8 rue de la Chouette
"In short, I am going to talk about those I loved" wrote Albert Camus in a note for The First Man.
In this autobiographical novel, which Camus was working on at the time of his accidental death, he recalls his birth in the wild east of Algeria, the joys of childhood in Belcourt, the "poor district" of Algiers, the school, the miraculous intervention of the teacher so that the child could continue his studies, a whole little world that is sometimes funny and warm, sometimes cruel.
After reading these pages, the roots of Camus' personality appear.
Readers: Michèle Massin - Jean Prévôt
Types
- Course / Workshop
Date
September 2022 to May 2023