Julien Gosselin's "Duras Museum" at the Printemps des Comédiens: eleven hours of an extraordinary experience

How can we amplify the experience of literature, make it intensely alive, and give it a collective dimension? Julien Gosselin responds with a landmark show, extraordinary in every sense of the word. Musée Duras left the audience at the Printemps des Comédiens in Montpellier, where it was presented on Saturday, June 7 and Sunday, June 8, with the exhilarating sensation of having lived an experience of exceptional depth. An experience, yes, more than a show. A journey: you enter the theater at 10 a.m., you leave some eleven hours later, telling yourself that it could have gone on and on.

The whole takes us into a Durassian landscape far removed from the clichés that stick to the skin of a writer who attracts the sarcasm of those who, in general, have not read her. Love, death, madness, inscription in history, in an inextricable mixture between the intimate and the collective, and more than anything literature as a vital principle, which was already at the heart of the two extraordinary theatrical journeys led by Julien Gosselin with Roberto Bolano ( 2666 , 2016) and Don de Lillo ( Joeurs, Mao II, Les Noms , 2018): it's all there.

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