I. MATERA REVISITED – PARIS, OPEN CITY
MAISON DES ÉTUDIANTS SUÉDOIS
Paris, Cité Universitaire
Saturday November 12, 2022
7F Bd. Jourdan, RER Cité Universitaire, 75014 Paris +33 1 53 80 81 70
12 p.m. to 2 p.m.
THE EDITING ROOM (U.P.H./E.G.B./A.H./A.S.)
Participants and others interested in Matera, Energheia, Italy, will work
on editing a small booklet with texts from the Sep. 2022 Writing Course.
2 p.m. LOOKING FOR YOURSELF (U.P.H./ E.B.)
Who is the narrator? (Fernando Pessoa, Virginia Woolf, Scott Fitzgerald)
3.p.m. TRANSLATION – WORDS THAT MATTER
Annelore Herrman and Achille Ségaud in dialogue with Laure-Hélène
Dardelay, traductrice suédois / islandais
3.30 SEARCHING FOR THE STORY (U.P.H.)
What is your specific story? (Marcel Proust, Julio Cortázar, Annie Ernaux)
4.15 p.m. ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL (U.P.H.)
What’s a proper ending? (Shakespeare, Molière)
4.40 COFFEE BREAK

FESTIVITAS 5. p.m. to 8 p.m.
IF MUSIC BE THE FOOD OF LOVE, PLAY ON!
Participants reading, to guitar and piano music. A secret is revealed.
If possible, wine and small things brought in by participants and U.P.H.

FESTIVITAS MASTERPLAN

5.00. U.P.H. “EUROPEAN YOUNG LITERATURE”

5.10. Spanning Malesherbes “THE OWE THÖRNQVIST PROJECT”

5.20 The Kinks, “I’m Not Like Everybody Else”

5.25. Sixten Ferring Houltz and Théo Benoit de Coignac, scholars at the
Jacques Lecoqs Theatre School, will perform a short piece from the
upcoming French edition of the Swedish writer Lars Andersson’s novel
“La légende du roi de la peste” 2023, (traduit du suédois par Tobias
Andersson et Flora Baudron, red: Léa Simic, Spleen Nordic Paris) Grand
présentation à Paris en mars 2023.
Léa Simic will present the novel and the artists.

5.40 U.P.H. in dialogue with Yael Kastel, Israel.
Short reading

6.00 Guitar music.

6.10 “Comment comprendre le Nord?”
Is the essence of Sweden coming close to the scenes of its crime
novels? A humane society changing for the worse? What’s left of the
good society? Ulf Peter Hallberg in dialogue with special guest and
students.6.30 U.P.H. in dialogue with Emma Dubreucq about her new novel.
Short reading.

6.50. Piano music

7.00 Mats O. Svensson, Övergreppet (en suédois)
Lecture d’un roman qui va être publié par Spleen Nordic en mai 2023
En 2021 Mats à publié l’essai De som sjöng vid civilisationens slut. Om
lyrik i antropocen, (Faethon) Présentation: U.P.H.

7.25 Piano music

7.30 Ulf Peter Hallberg ”Heaven’s Gate”, avec Sixten Ferring Houltz.
Introduction: Edward G. Bell (The Collector’s Will, Spleen Nordic U.S.
2023)

7.55 Piano music

8.00 The Secret is Revealed. Music, small things and wine.

Possibly with further readings and people playing music…

9.00 The Perfect Ending.