7L Reading Room with Benoît Astier de Villatte and Ivan Pericoli
Guests of the latest 7L Reading Room, Benoît Astier de Villatte
@benoitastierdevillatte and Ivan Pericoli
@ivanpericoli shared with the Friends of 7L a literary vision of their life, from their childhood in Italy to the invention of their common project ‘Astier de Villatte’
@astierdevillatte .
A creative and playful world inspired by the search of lost time through disappearing shapes and spaces, paintings memories and a love for savoir-faire. They invited artist Setsuko Klossowska de Rola to read Rilke’s foreword of ‘Mitsou’, a book republished by Astier de Villatte gathering drawings by the young Balthus. Benoît Astier de Villatte recalled his early years with his family at Villa Medicis where he met Setsuko for the first time, while Ivan Pericoli recollected their extraordinary discovery of Romain Gary’s ‘Promise of Dawn’.
Actor Jean-Hugues Anglade also read an excerpt from ‘Discours à l’Académie suédoise’ by Patrick Modiano, an author they both love, and with whom they share a taste for the old guides of the city of Paris.
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