Rencontre avec Philippe Forest

UCD French and Francophone Studies Research Seminar:

Date: 16th October 2025
Time: 5pm
Location: D301, Newman Building, UCD

Since his first autofictional novel L’Enfant éternel (1997, Prix Femina) that relates the illness and death of his daughter Pauline, Philippe Forest has incessantly probed, creatively and critically, the relationship between life and literature, reality and fiction, what art in its multifarious forms can and cannot do. His latest novel, Et personne ne sait (2025), continues to question the place of the absent child, while his anti-biography of Shakespeare, Shakespeare. Quelqu’un, tout le monde et puis personne (2025), pursues the truth of an elusive existence in a writing largely shaped by fable and dream.

ALL WELCOME