Each year, Reading nights Transform libraries, museums and historical monuments into real literary scenes. For this 9ᵉ edition, of January 23 to 26the theme “Heritage” serves as a common thread for a program that invites you to rediscover our heritage through reading. But beyond the decor, what do we really live during a night of reading?
Read otherwise: when literature comes to life
Forget the cozy silence of libraries. During these nights, reading becomes performance : We live it in music, immersion, in unexpected places. Attending a reading in the catacombs or under the Gothic vaults of an abbey, it is feel The texts, connect them to space, to the voices which carry them.
To the concierge, for example, the words of Maylis de Kerangal will resonate under the stones steeped in history, giving a dimension almost sacred to the stories chosen. In Fontainebleau, an entire night will be dedicated to tales, between theater, music and literary vigil.
A meeting with the past … and with yourself
Reading is also dive into oneselfquestion our own relationship to heritage. Why do some texts resonate stronger in a museum than in our living room? Why do historical novels fascinate us so much? These questions, certain events of the nights of reading ask them interactively.
In Pontoise, a large literary investigation invites young and old to explore the story through the game. City of architecture and heritagea reading marathon of To the happiness of the ladies We make us aware of the evolution of our cities and our way of consuming.
The emotion of a shared book
-One of the most striking moments of the nights of reading is often the moment when we listen to someone else read. A voice that brings a text to life, which reveals nuances that we had never perceived. Reading alone and reading together is not the same experience.
Some prefer intimate readings, in sifted rooms, where a writer almost whispers his words to the public. Others are captivated by musical readings, where notes highlight the emotion of sentences. In any case, we come out changed.
And after? When night makes us want to read
The side effect of the nights of reading is that they awaken a desire: that of take a bookto plunge back into a work that we thought was to know or to discover a new one. How much leave with a list of readings under your arm, impatient to continue the adventure started at the bend of a performance?
These nights, reading becomes more than leisure: it becomes a moment of sharing, emotion and rediscovery of the world around us.
So where will you pass yours?
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