Lesung mit Pascale Hugues

In the organizer's words:

Reading with the author and journalist Pascale Hugues on the occasion of the publication of the novel "So voll Leben".

Yvette is born in Colmar, Alsace, in the year of the Great Depression. Her parents want a boy and have a girl. Sometimes French, sometimes German, she changes nationality, language and even first name three times in war-torn Alsace. Later, as an adult woman, she vacillates between bourgeoisie and rebellion, between patriarchy and feminism. Yvette's life is always between two poles, a mirror of her illness.

As a child, Pascale Hugues never found out why her caring mother disappeared for weeks at a time. The adults did not tell her that she was in hospital. Hugues paints a picture of a time when mental illness was a taboo, hidden behind protective lies. In this book, she gets closer to her mother, who was so full of life.

As part of the lecture series France "Was uns prägt: Identité(S) e mutation" in cooperation with the Institut français Bonn, the Romance Studies Department of the University of Bonn and the CERC.

To the website: https://www.ifb.uni-bonn.de/kultur/veranstaltungen/ringvorlesung-was-uns-praegt-identite-s-en-mutation