Café littéraire Pierre Assouline

Conference
Divonne-les-Bains
03 June 2025 de 20h30 à 22h30
Journalist, novelist and biographer Pierre Assouline is a member of the Académie Goncourt. Come and discover L'annonce, his latest novel
Pierre Assouline, writer, biographer, journalist, columnist and member of the Goncourt jury since 2012, teaches literary writing at Sciences Po. The author of some forty books that have won prestigious awards, he has distinguished himself with notable biographies (Marcel Dassault, Gaston Gallimard, Albert Londres, Simenon, Hergé, Moïse de Camondo, Cartier-Bresson...) and novels (Le Fleuve Combelle, La Cliente, Lutetia, Le Portrait, Vies de Job, Sigmaringen, Golem, Retour à Séfarad, Le Nageur...). In 2007, he was awarded the Prix de la Langue Française for his body of work. In his latest novel, L'Annonce, Parisian student Raphaël volunteers on October 6, 1973 to help Israel during the Yom Kippur War. There, he meets Esther, a twenty-year-old Israeli woman working in the army's psychological services. Their budding love is shattered by the violence of the conflict, forever changing their relationship with death. Separated by circumstances, they go their separate ways. Fifty years later, on October 7, 2023, war breaks out again. Raphaël returns to Israel, where he finds Esther... Full price: 10 €, Reduced price: 8 €.
Informations pratiques
03 June 2025 de 20h30 à 22h30
Divonne-les-Bains
Esplanade du lac
181 avenue de la place
01220Divonne-les-Bains