LES SOULIERS DU PRESIDENT par Dan Albertini Un scénario qui met en vedette Antonio Cherami dans le rôle de Don Kato, le président et la ville de Jérémie. Kanaval est Carnaval Don Kato est un juge de la société des sans titres, il n’est pas des sans papier. Il prononce un verdict. Sa parole est de l’encre indélébile dont l’empreinte littéraire reste orale, elle fait dans la meringue populaire. Ce n’est pas un chapeau qu’il propose au président, mais des…
Doctor Takashi Kawashima is Professor of German literature at Kyoto University, a specialist of the work of Kafka and Johanna Spyri. He was invited to the last Salon du Livre in Geneva where he participated in a discussion on the reception of Heidi in Japan. Jean-Michel Wissmer, author of a recently published essay on the « myth » of Heidi, took part with him in this presentation and has taken the opportunity to ask him a few questions on this « love story » between Heidi and his country. JMW. Dr. Kawashima, how did you become interested in Heidi ? TK. As a book-loving child, I read a lot of Western classics of children’s literature and Heidi was among them. But when I grew up, I was shocked by the fact that other people had a totally different image of Heidi – because they knew only the animated cartoon by Isao Takahata (1974) and I only the original novels by Johanna Spyri. That is why I got interested in this theme, namely the diversity of images of Heidi. JMW. Can you explain in a few words why Heidi is so popular in Japan ? TK. There are many reasons, and you must distinguish the animated TV series from the novel Heidi. After the Second…
