A Ticket to a Celebrity Party

Description

A narrative sequence about novel writing worldwide, where a grand party is imagined for a group of literary luminaries, just as it always is for film stars: big parties, huge festivals, publicity, advertisements, black limousines, diamond brooches, glittering earrings, camera lights, camera flashes. This is what a soldier on the front lines imagines during his rest hours, sitting alone and immersing himself in his book, drowning in the lines as if in another time and place, as if living in a world other than the one he was forced to inhabit. He imagines a party for literary luminaries, far removed from the stench of rotting corpses carried on the wind from the battlefield, or from the gunpowder that penetrated his very being. He thinks of a party for novelists attended by Flaubert, Sartre, Bukowski, Elfriede Jelinek, Assia Djebar, Claude Simon, Françoise Sagan, Albert Camus, Paul Constant, Henry Miller, Orhan Pamuk, Jean Genet, and Sabato. Bulgakov, Solzhenitsyn, Le Clézio, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Chingiz Amatov, Alberto Moravia… This is the first part of a narrative, fictional, and conversational series presented by Ali Bader about famous 20th-century novelists.