An afternoon with Pascal Bruckner

In a world where its upheavals and transformations daily abolish everything from yesterday’s old certainties, the French writer and intellectual comes to Thessaloniki to x-ray his new condition. From The Black Moons of Love, made into a film by Roman Polanski, to his latest book, An Almost Perfect Guilty (Pataki Publishers), much of Bruckner’s literary work as well as political and social reflection was and is about the criticism of French society and culture, always under the gaze and perspective of the interventionist and heretic we think
mind. In the open discussion before the audience, she will talk about France and Europe, where her values ​​are placed, and about the future of letters and the arts in the age of TikTok and the fast consumption of news and trends. With the fall of the Berlin Wall as a milestone, the famous French writer with an unconventional speech and a well-structured argument, will examine the slide of France and Europe from the progress of the tripartite “feminism – decolonization – anti-racism” of the traditional left, to the ill-digested made in USA version of woke culture.

Giannis Kotsifos, journalist, director of the Union of Editors of Macedonia-Thrace, and Vaso Kouidou, journalist and manager of the press office of the French Institute of Thessaloniki, will discuss with Pascal Bruckner. The event, in collaboration of the French Institute with the 59th Dimitria, is under the auspices of the Consulate General of France in Thessaloniki.