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Le Livre sur la Place - Rencontre - Javier Cercas

Festival, Literature in Nancy
  • This time, the great Spanish writer ventures into the world of the Church, recounting the experience of an official trip with the Pope. For the first time, the Vatican has opened its doors to a writer. And here is this book, a novel without fiction, by an "atheist, anticlerical, militant secularist, obstinate rationalist" Javier Cercas, who asks the big questions about belief and the Church's influence on the world.

    Javier Cercas, Le fou de Dieu au bout du monde (Actes Sud), translated from...
    This time, the great Spanish writer ventures into the world of the Church, recounting the experience of an official trip with the Pope. For the first time, the Vatican has opened its doors to a writer. And here is this book, a novel without fiction, by an "atheist, anticlerical, militant secularist, obstinate rationalist" Javier Cercas, who asks the big questions about belief and the Church's influence on the world.

    Javier Cercas, Le fou de Dieu au bout du monde (Actes Sud), translated from Spanish by Aleksandar Grujicic and Karine Louesdon
    Moderated by Christophe Ono-dit-Biot

    In partnership with Le Point and the Jan Michalski Foundation.
Schedules
Schedules
  • On September 12, 2025 from 3:15 PM to 4:15 PM