Poetry lectureship Cécile Wajsbrot 2018
Poster on the occasion of the workshop discussion and reading with author and DRESDEN Fellow Cécile Wajsbrot on November 13 and 28, 2018, at TU Dresden.
French author Cécile Wajsbrot served as a DRESDEN Fellow and held the poetry chair at the Centrum Frankreich | Frankophonie during the 2018–19 winter semester. In these sessions, she provided insight into her writing and her latest novel, *Destruction*, which was published in Paris in the spring of 2019.
Cécile Wajsbrot has received numerous awards as a French author, translator, and literary scholar: In 2014, she received the Eugen Helmlé Translation Prize; in 2016, the Prix de l’Académie de Berlin; and she has been a member of the German Academy of Poetry since 2017.
The author, who has Polish-Jewish roots, divides her time between Paris and Berlin and is therefore considered an exemplary representative of “writing between worlds” (Ette 2005).
Her literary work evolves into a “single book” not only because of its (musical) harmony and coherence, but also because of a dense web of intertextual and intermedial references. Her latest five-volume novel series, which concludes with *Destruction* and, due to its aesthetic form, takes the risk of a “journey” to unknown continents of literature, explores the emergence of various art forms and their reception.
The following events took place as part of this Poetics Lecture Series:
- November 28, 2018 – Cécile Wajsbrot: Destruction (2019) – Reading and Discussion
- November 13, 2018 – Cécile Wajsbrot: Workshop discussion “Cet état particulier appelé littérature”
Photo 1 on the occasion of the reading “Destruction 2019” by Cécile Wajsbrot on November 28, 2018, at the Literaturhaus Villa Augustin in Dresden. © Das Erich Kästner Haus für Literatur Dresden
Photo 2 on the occasion of the reading of “Destruction 2019” by Cécile Wajsbrot on November 28, 2018, at the Literaturhaus Villa Augustin in Dresden. © Das Erich Kästner Haus für Literatur Dresden
Photo 3 on the occasion of the reading of “Destruction 2019” by Cécile Wajsbrot on November 28, 2018, at the Literaturhaus Villa Augustin in Dresden. © Das Erich Kästner Haus für Literatur Dresden
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