The new Depardieu Gallery is gaining prominence in the cultural landscape of Nice. Exhibitions, concerts, and various events enliven this truly original space where, according to the wishes of the gallery owner, everyone should feel at home in the company of friends.
This evening, the program features a theatrical reading: “ALLER SIMPLE” by Erri de Luca with Valentine Bernardeau, Mélissa Calatayud, Marie-Hélène Clément, Sophie de Montgolfier, Alicia Malialin, and Michela Marcolina.
“We came barefoot, without soles, and felt neither thorns, nor stones, nor scorpion tails. No police can oppress us
more than we have already been hurt. We will be your servants, the children you do not have, our lives will be your adventure books.”
The author, Erri de Luca, was born in Naples in 1950. At 18, he completed his secondary education and went to Rome, where he engaged in revolutionary political action. From 1969 to 1977, he was part of the leadership of the far-left movement Lotta Continua. Upon its dissolution, he joined Fiat as a worker, which he left after the failure of social movements in 1980 to begin a life as a solitary and itinerant worker until 1995. In parallel, he engaged in humanitarian actions (Africa 1983, Bosnia-Herzegovina 1992/1995). His first novel “NON ORA, NON QUI” was published in 1989 and was followed by numerous works including “MONTEDIDO,” which won the foreign Fémina prize in 2002.
“ALLER SIMPLE begins under the African sun where, poem after poem, the tragic epic of emigrants trying to reach Italian soil takes shape. From burning sand to the merciless sea, we follow these figures who will face hunger, the violence of nature, and that of the traffickers. This succession of verses echoes the many sadly familiar stories, the fate of the desperate who will brave the Mediterranean to our European coasts.”
