Nicolas Bourriaud

Francois Bon

Villeglé

Jacques Mahé de La Villeglé

Kaira Cabanas

This is the first English-language publication of one of the most influential figures of the New Realism movement in France during the 1960s.

Jacques Villeglé

Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Inspired by the closing of three Daewoo factories in the Lorraine region of France in 2002, François Bon's novel DAEWOO intertwines journalism, fiction and theater, to explore what actually happens in the lives of working people when they are abruptly stripped of their livelihood and, consequently, their sense of security, purpose, and dignity. In the early 2000s, Bon traveled to the Lorraine intending to do research for a play about the changed lives of the hundreds of suddenly unemployed workers, mostly women, who had assembled microwaves and television sets in the Daewoo factories. But when he arrived he discovered that research was not sufficient, that reportage could not achieve the kind of vigilant witness to events that he sought. To pay homage to truth, he needed fiction; and so DAEWOO was born--a novel combining elements of theater, fictional narrative, journalistic research, and imagined interviews, that together testify to the real damage done to people caught in the multi-national economic squeeze, discarded and forgotten like the buildings they once worked in and maintained.

Daewoo

C'est un article dans la presse locale: à la fête foraine, dans une des baraques d'épouvante, alors qu'on voulait repeindre le pendu accroché dans le virage, on découvre qu'il s'agit d'un vrai mort...Ou bien, dans la ville suivante où vous habitez, encore dans la presse locale, un mort qui explose, à l'heure du déjeuner, dans le crematorium où on se débarrasse de ceux qui "ont fait don de leur corps à la science".Ou bien, ou bien... Une ressemblance, un soir, dans les couloirs d'un théâtre - et vous vous souvenez que la personne que vous avez cru reconnaître est morte...Qui d'entre nous ne porte pas, dans le fond de la tête et des angoisses, des histoires avec mort ?

Francois Bon

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