Café littéraire - Les esprits et fantômes dans la littérature.

At 2pm at the St Exupéry social centre.

Stephen King, American writer born on 21 September 1947. His books are fantasy, science fiction and detective stories. As well as the horrific nature of most of his books, he regularly tackles the themes of childhood and the condition of the writer, and paints a very realistic and uncompromising social portrait of the United States at the end of the 20th century and the beginning of the next, tackling social issues such as homophobia, religious fanaticism and religion in general, racism and harassment...

Theme: Spirits and ghosts in literature.
They have haunted literature since antiquity, with Homer's Odyssey (during Ulysses' stay in the Underworld)...
In the 20th century, they can be found in Gaston Leroux's Le Fantôme de l'Opéra / Jean Ray's The Book of Ghosts / American novelist Shirley Jackson's Haunted House / Susan Hill's The Lady in Black / or Stephen King's Shining, l'enfant lumière, which depicts a haunted hotel and its many ghosts/etc.
In the 21st century, they still appear in films such as: Par-delà la pluie by Víctor des Árbol/ La mort de Masao by Didier da Silva (an author who came to Luxeuil for the Petites fugues de 2023) / or in the latest novel by the American author John Irving Les fantômes de l'hôtel Jérôme / etc.