Publication
Jean Duvignaud, de la Tunisie au Brésil. À la rencontre des cultures du monde
Between Tunisia and Brazil, writer and intellectual Jean Duvignaud (1921-2007) opened up to the world. His world-work, which echoes the voices of literature and philosophy, theater and anthropology, history and sociology, psychoanalysis and poetry, painting and architecture, challenges commentators and biographers. Leaping from one ridgeline to another, "gaping at things to come" as he liked to say in the words of Montaigne, he has always preferred to watch for the unexpected rather than settle for the study of tidy structural certainties. In these places of revelation, which will forever remain the magnetic poles of his thought, Jean Duvignaud has been able to give free rein to an intuition that has long worked in his body - that of the vehemence of imaginary practices. On the occasion of the centenary of his birth, students, fellow travelers and friends gathered at the Centre Intermondes in La Rochelle, which he had helped to create in 2003, in the form of a Maison des Humanités, to offer new readings of an abundant and always stimulating thought when it comes to questioning celebration and subversion, anomie and the insurrection of the possible, artistic creation and the imaginary. Edited by Laurent Vidal, with support fromIntermondes and La Rochelle Université.
