Book presentation Ralph Ludwig "L'Errance et le rire" May 4, 2022

© Gallimard; CFF

For more than thirty years, Franco-Caribbean authors of the “nouvelle littérature antillaise”—from Édouard Glissant to Maryse Condé, from Raphaël Confiant to Gisèle Pineau—have been creating stories, novels, essays, and conceptual works that show us one thing above all: the Caribbean archipelago—with its diverse interconnections and shaped by cultural hybridity—is a microcosm in which current global cultural and social dynamics converge and have always been observable.

Ralph Ludwig, a scholar of Romance languages (Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg), has been researching this laboratory of contemporary cultures since its inception and is making it accessible to a broad European audience.

With *L’Errance et le Rire* (2022), he has published an anthology of new Antillean literature with the renowned Parisian publisher Gallimard. It can be seen as a sequel to his anthology *Écrire la parole de nuit* (1994), which has been hailed as a classic.

Thanks to Ralph Ludwig, his fascinating lecture gave us insight into how the concepts of “errance” and “rire” continue to shape the Creole world of the Antilles today and how this is reflected in literature.

Lecture and discussion in German.

WHEN? May 4, 2022, 6:30 p.m.
WHERE? SLK Faculty, Wiener Straße 48, 01219 Dresden, Room 0.04

Photo Gallery: Book Launch for Ralph Ludwig’s “L’Errance et le rire” May 4, 2022