Literary encounter with Marek Vadas

Inalco (Plidam) in partnership with the Slovak Institute in Paris and Le Ver à Soie publishers invite you to a literary encounter with Marek Vadas on the occasion of the publication of his latest novel "Six Étrangers" in French.
Couverture de l'ouvrage "Six étrangers"
Six étrangers © Le Ver à Soie‎

Evil is not a matter of mental aberration. The greatest atrocities are committed by quite ordinary people, when they have the opportunity. Like the pogrom against the Roma in a small village in western Slovakia in 1928, when six innocent citizens were brutally murdered by the honest citizens of the time in a night-time lynching. After Le Guérisseur, set in Africa, Editions du Ver à Soie presents Marek Vadas' latest novel, loosely based on this historic event. Six Étrangers is a mosaic in which each protagonist describes the event from his or her own point of view. It's a story of ordinary madness, or exasperating banality. It could just as easily have happened yesterday, today or tomorrow. It's as if an evil spirit had taken hold of an entire community in the sleepy little town of P., where the story of The Six Strangers unfolds.

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