Newswise — Mississippi State University will host a J.M.G. Le Clézio international colloquium on April 23-25.
Titled “J.M.G. Le Clézio dans La Forêt des Paradoxes” (J.M.G. Le Clézio in the Forest of Paradoxes), the colloquium will focus on the French author’s Nobel Prize acceptance speech by the same title. The colloquium is co-organized by MSU assistant professor of foreign language Keith Moser and the eminent Le Clézio specialist Bruno Thibault of The University of Delaware.
Le Clézio scholars from twelve countries including France, Canada, Belgium, Norway, Finland, Israel, Spain, Ivory Coast, Cameroun and Australia will participate in the colloquium, most of whom have published books, articles, translations and reviews related to the 2008 Nobel Laureate in literature.
The keynote speaker, Bruno Doucey, is an accomplished critic of contemporary French literature and a successful poet. He is also the executive director of the publishing company Editions Seghers.
Moser said this gathering of critics and other Le Clézio scholars will likely bring new insight on the Franco-Mauritian writer and humanitarian.
“It promises to be one of the most fruitful of its kind ever conceived in the United States,” Moser said.
The official language of the symposium is French.
Le Clézio visited MSU in 2009 and spoke at the university after a personal encounter with Moser.
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