Lorand Gaspar, a contemporary French-speaking writer and surgeon in Tunisia

Conference International, Culture
March 20, 2019Saint-Martin-d'Hères - Domaine universitaire
Organized as part of Francophonie Week, this lecture will be given by Daniel Lançon, professor emeritus of French and Francophone literature at UGA. Daniel Lançon has devoted much of his research to the work of Lorand Gaspar, a contemporary writer whose career embodies the linguistic and cultural diversity that enriches the French-speaking world.
Born in eastern Transylvania in 1925, Lorand Gaspar fled to France after being deported to a labor camp during World War II. He became a surgeon and practiced in Jerusalem and Bethlehem between 1954 and 1970. In 1970, he moved with his wife to Tunis, where he continued to practice medicine. Throughout these periods of "transmutation," to use a word dear to him, Lorand Gaspar never ceased to build bridges between East and West, between medicine and literature, by composing poems in French. Poetry became the crucible in which languages and cultures revealed their secret affinities. Daniel Lançon's lecture is an opportunity to discover the exceptional career of this multilingual surgeon-poet.
 
Published on March 8, 2019
Updated on March 12, 2019