Camille de Toledo

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Camille de Toledo , real name Alexis Mital (born June 25, 1976 in Lyon , France ) is a French writer. He is also a videographer, musician and photographer.

biography

Toledo studied history and political science at the Institut d'Études Politiques in Paris , as well as law and literature at the University of Paris VII Diderot, where he did a doctorate in comparative literature under Dominique Rabaté on the motif of dizziness (vertige) in the works of Cervantes , Jorge Luis Borges , Claudio Magris , Edouard Glissant , William Faulkner , Fernando Pessoa , Herman Melville and WG Sebald .

In 2004 he received the Villa Médicis scholarship .

In 2005 he began writing " Strates" , which is described as " fictional archeology ". Of four books intended for this tetralogy, two have been published: L'Inversion de Hieronymus Bosch (Eng. Die Inversion von Hieronymus Bosch, Editions Verticales 2005), which was published a few years later, in 2011 under the title En época de monstruos y catástrofes ( Ger. In the epoch of monsters and catastrophes) as a Spanish translation (Ed. Alpha Decay, translation by Juan Asis) and Vies et mort d'un terroriste américain (Ger. Life and Death of an American Terrorist, Editions Verticales, 2007).

Toledo is also the author of essays in which different writing styles and genres flow into one another: autobiographical narrative, criticism, flash fiction, including Le Hêtre et le Bouleau (German: The beech and the birch, 2009) and L'Adieu au 20e siècle (German. Farewell to the 20th Century, 2002). He also published in 2008 at the French university publisher Puf an answer in essay form to the manifesto called Pour une littérature-monde en français (dt. For a French World Literature), which in March 2007 on the occasion of the festival Etonnants voyageur of Saint-Malo has been published. This pamphlet called Visiter le Flurkistan ou les illusions de la littérature-monde (Eng. Visit to Flurkistan or the Illusions of World Literature) advocates a philosophically committed literature that is freed from all directly objectivistic, naturalistic or realistic constraints, and fundamentally falls under artificial archeology rather than under the "real" and "authentic" travel experience. His works are translated in Spain, Italy, Germany and the United States. Toledo is a regular contributor to the philosophy, art and literature journal Pylône.

In the spring of 2008, he and Maren Sell founded the Société européenne des auteurs (SEA, European Authors' Society) to promote a culture of translation across all linguistic boundaries. With this network, which is supported by authors and intellectuals such as Bruno Latour , Hélène Cixous , Juan Goytisolo and Mathias Énard , Toledo is developing a "poetics of interlinguality" ( poétique de l'entre-des-langues ), the "translation as language" , with the aim of "de-nationalizing the literary and political field". He founds the platform for collaborative translation Glaub.org and the Finnegans List project .

In March 2011 his fragmentary novel Vies pøtentielles (German: Potential CVs) will be published by Seuil. According to Dominique Rabaté, this is a biographical and literary turning point.

L'Inquiétude d'être au monde will be published by Editions Verdier at the beginning of 2012 . It is a long poem, a kind of song, in which the author traces the state of Europe at the beginning of the 21st century and, reflexively and poetically, thematizes the possible meaning of a "black myth", the massacre of Utøya .

In March 2013 he wrote the libretto and created the videos in the Salle Pleyel for the opera La Chute de Fukuyama (The Fall of Fukuyama) about the attacks of September 11, 2001, composed by Grégoire Hetzel .

In 2014 Toledo undertook the Central Europe project, which consists of "Narrations in Art" and which can be seen in changing forms in Hall 14 of the Leipziger Spinnerei for over a year. Here he develops a plastic and material writing, a continuation of his literary writing in an exhibition space. For example, in March 2015 he shows the exhibitions "The Potential Exhibition", in April – May a reflection on violence and history, "History Reloaded", and finally a work on the relationship between utopia and dystopia, "Europa-Eutopia".

In 2019, together with the Pôle Art et Urbanisme (Polau), he founded a new "potential institution" in Tours: the Auditions du parlement de Loire, in order to stimulate reflection with leading intellectuals on how natural and geographical conditions such as rivers, Seas and entire ecosystems can be given or recognized the status of legal person and how institutions of justice between different species can be established.

Together with the École urbaine de Lyon, the Association Arty Party and the fête du livre de Bron, he has also curated and moderated a series as part of a residency from January to June 2020, which deals with the term "investigation" or "investigation" ( enquête ) in art, literature, and the cultural and social sciences: Enquêter, enquêter, mais pour élucider quel crime? He teaches in the Atelier des écritures contemporaines of the ENSAV (La Cambre) in Brussels.

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Toledo is the son of journalist Christine Mital and film producer Gérard Mital. His maternal grandfather is Antoine Riboud, founder of the Danone Group .

Toledo is married to the French-Tunisian historian Leyla Dakhli, who conducts research for the CNRS at the Center Marc Bloch in Berlin. His Jewish-Spanish grandmother Marguerite de Toledo is the sister of Jean de Toledo, a Geneva politician. His cousin Françoise Wilhelmi de Toledo is a doctor and well-known specialist in therapeutic fasting, his cousin Alain de Toledo campaigned for a memorial for the Sephardic-Spanish Jews deported from France. The cradle of his family is in Switzerland in Geneva. His brother Jérôme's suicide in Paris on March 1, 2005 left a strong mark on him. Today he lives in Paris and has three children.

Today he lives in Berlin and is the father of three children.

Publications

Essays - narratives

  • Archimondain Jolipunk; confessions d'un jeune homme à contretemps , Calmann-Lévy, 2002 (German edition: Goodbye Tristesse - Confessions of an uncomfortable contemporary, Tropen-Verlag, 2005)
  • Visiter le Flurkistan ou les illusions de la littérature-monde , PUF, 2008
  • Le hêtre et le bouleau. Essai sur la tristesse européenne , Le Seuil publishing house, "La Librairie du XXIe siècle" collection, 2009
  • Les potentiels du temps , Art & Politique, avec Aliocha Imhoff et Kantuta Quiros, Manuella éditions, 2016

Novels

  • L'Inversion de Hieronymus Bosch , Verlag Verticales, 2005 (En época de monstruos y catástrofes, Alpha Decay17, 2012)
  • Vies et mort d'un terroriste américain , Verticales publishing house, 2007
  • Vies pøtentielles , Flash Fiction, Le Seuil publishing house, "La Librairie du XXIe siècle", 2011
  • Oublier, trahir, puis disparaître , Le Seuil publishing house, "La Librairie du XXIe siècle" collection, 2014
  • Le livre de la faim et de la soif , Gallimard, 2017
  • Herzl, une histoire européenne Ed. Denoël Graphics 2018
  • Thésée, sa vie nouvelle Ed. Verdier 2020

Collection - songs - poetry

  • L'Inquiétude d'être au monde , Verdier Publishing House, Chaoïd Collection, January 2012
  • The unrest about being in the world " , in: Lettre International 107, Winter 2014 ( excerpt )

libretto

  • La Chute de Fukuyama , with music by Grégoire Hetzel, created in Paris in March 2013.

Filmography

  • 2001 : Tango de l'oubli , Whoopy Movies production, Official selection of the Cannes Film Festival, the New York Film Festival, the Mar del Plata International Film Festival
  • 2001 : Une journée dans la vie d'un pneu : chronique de la mondialisation, CAPA / CANAL, documentary film
  • 2001 : Globalement contre , CAPA / CANAL, documentary film
  • 2003 : Gêne-s-ration , 52 minutes, Arte, documentary insight
  • 2003 : Racontez-nous , Anna, 70 minutes, experimental video
  • 2003 : The story of my brother , 26 minutes, video from the series Video-poème
  • 2006 : Running Always , 10 minutes, video from the series Cinéma pauvre
  • 2007 : V ince, 26 ans , 10 minutes, video from the series Cinéma pauvre
  • 2011 : What will happen to silence , 8 minutes, video from the Hantologies series
  • 2011 : How many pages , 5 minutes, video from the Hantologies series

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Annuaire des personnes , Unifrance
  2. ↑ Gene (s) ration , Ardèche Images , lussasdoc.org
  3. ↑ Alexis Camille de Toledo: HISTOIRE DU VERTIGE - de Cervantes à Sebald . July 4, 2019 ( theses.fr [accessed August 17, 2020]).
  4. ↑ Villa Médicis Historique des bénéficiaires , mel.fr
  5. ↑ En época de monstruos y catástrofes , February 20, 2012, alphadecay.org
  6. ↑ Contre une "littérature déprimée et / ou nombriliste" , bibliobs.nouvelobs.com , 02 October 2007
  7. ↑ pylône-7 ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , pylonemagazine.com  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.pylonemagazine.com
  8. ^ Camille de Toledo La traduction ou comment émouvoir l'Europe? ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , seua.org @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.seua.org
  9. ↑ Dominique Rabaté, Camille de Toledo: Camille de Toledo répond aux questions de Dominique Rabaté . In: Revue critique de fixxion française contemporaine . tape 0 , no. 1 , December 15, 2010, ISSN  2033-7019 , p. 97-101 ( revue-critique-de-fixxion-francaise-contemporaine.org [accessed August 17, 2020]).
  10. ↑ L'Inquiétude d'être au monde. Retrieved on August 17, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  11. ↑ La Chute du Fukuyama , sur Toledo Archives.net
  12. ↑ Toledo Archives: HISTORY RELOADED. October 6, 2015, accessed August 17, 2020 .
  13. ↑ Toledo Archives: EUROPA / EUTOPIA in Leipzig. December 8, 2015, accessed August 17, 2020 .
  14. ↑ Les auditions du parlement de Loire # 1 | Le fonctionnement d'un parlement. Retrieved on August 17, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  15. ↑ Victor David: La nouvelle vague des droits de la nature. La personnalité juridique reconnue aux fleuves Whanganui, Gange et Yamuna . In: Revue juridique de l'environnement 2017/3 (Volume 42) . S. 409-424 .
  16. ↑ ANTHROPOadmin ANTHROPOadmin: ECOLE URBAINE DE LYON - ENQUÊTER, ENQUÊTER, MAIS POUR ÉLUCIDER QUEL CRIME? (residence de janvier à juin 2020). Retrieved on August 17, 2020 (Fri-FR).
  17. ^ Atelier des Écritures contemporaines. Retrieved August 17, 2020 (French).
  18. ↑ Leyla Dakhli. Retrieved August 17, 2020 .
  19. ↑ Laurence Bézaguet, Jean de Toledo: une vie à 100 à l'heure , Tribune de Genève , 05 October 2011
  20. ↑ Camille de Toledo. Retrieved on August 17, 2020 (Fri-FR).

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personal data
SURNAME Toledo, Camille de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Mital, Alexis (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French author
DATE OF BIRTH June 25, 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH Lyon , France