[FR] European Encounters: 13 interviews on European identity

They are architects, filmmakers, writers, historians and poets; born during the Roaring Twenties, during the Second World War or in the 1970s, they have all agreed to engage in a dialogue on European identity. Each of them contributes to this dialogue with their unique historical experience and intellectual tradition.

A multiplicity of voices, therefore, to describe how Europe is experienced, thought about and constructed at the turn of the 21st century. Voices that are sometimes in agreement, sometimes discordant – whose succession does not reveal a “grand narrative” of Europe, but rather the awareness that, on this continent broken by the crimes of the previous century, the epic mode has become impossible (and that this is perhaps a good thing…).