As part of Nuit de la littérature

Une voix pour…
Beatlebone

Saturday 27 May 2017
5pm-11pm (readings every hour up until and including 10pm),
In English and French, 40 mins

admission free within the space limitations of the venue
La Bellevilloise, 19-21 rue Boyer, Paris 20e

For Nuit de la littérature’s fifth literary festival organised all over the 20th arrondissement, CCI has invited Kevin Barry to represent Ireland and read from his latest work Beatlebone (2015). The story opens as John Lennon arrives by night and incognito on the west coast of Ireland in May 1978; ‘all he asks’ is to ‘spend three days alone on his island’. The island in question is Dorinish in Clew Bay, County Mayo, which the real‑life Lennon bought in 1967. Barry’s Lennon has returned nine years later in search of solitude and in order to ‘scream his fucking lungs out’ and ‘at last to be over himself’. Marc Roger will lend his voice in French to Carine Chichereau's translation of this highly original work.

Full details of the Nuit de la littérature organised by Forum des Instituts Culturels Etrangers à Paris : www.ficep.info