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The aim was to celebrate Flaubert Year by programming a film adaptation of Madame Bovary (Val Abraham by Manoel de Oliveira) and inviting a contemporary writer, Arno Bertina, to talk about his relationship with Gustave Flaubert. Students from the LCC Master's program hosted the meeting with the public and prepared the interview with their teachers, Laurent Demanze and Delphine Gleizes.

Arno Bertina is one of the writers involved in the Bowary project, a 280-tweet rewriting of Gustave Flaubert's novel Madame Bovary. The meeting hosted by the students opened the way for reflection on the complex relationship between a writer and the Flaubertian heritage, and on the creative gesture involved in "reducing" Madame Bovary to Twitter format.

In the spring, Arno Bertina met up with students for a study day entitled "Faire court" - devoted to brevity in literary creation - and a writing workshop in which everyone tried their hand at producing short texts in Twitter format, based on a novel. After Madame Bovary, Stendhal's La Chartreuse de Parme - Grenoble oblige! - was the subject of a lively reinterpretation. The result was presented by the students as part of the colloquium.