On the 20-21 of March Russian-Swiss center for education and research under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy held the conference "Swiss Francophone literature. Charles Ferdinand Ramuz".
On the 20-21 of March Russian-Swiss center for education and research under the auspices of the Swiss Embassy held the conference "Swiss Francophone literature. Charles Ferdinand Ramuz".
Representatives of the Swiss Embassy read a welcoming letter addressed by the Minister of the Embassy Mr. Lorenzo Amberg to participants of the Conference: teachers and students of the Russian State University for the Humanities. "Creative Union Ch.F. Ramuz and I. Stravinsky – is a bright example of mutual understanding and culture community of our countries", - it was emphasized in the letter.
Mr. Rudolph Marer (University of Lausanne) made the report "Ramuz is the "revolutionary" of style", especially having noted the influence that F.M. Dostoyevsky and L.N. Tolstoy had exerted on the Swiss writer.
Professor A. Vishnyakov (A.M. Gorky Institute for the World Literature) acquainted listeners with the original concept of the novel Ramuz "The Kingdom of the Evil one", having identified parallels with the art of Bruegel incipient by the reading of the work.
In the report by Professor V. Bolshakov "Creativity by Ramuz, an attempt to express the highest in a simple" the matter was about theme and problematic of ramuz’s novels.
Film festival ran in the framework of the Conference; those films were shot on the subjects of Ramuz's works ("la Guerre dans le Haut-Pays" de Francis Reusser, "Rapt" de Dmitri Kirsanoff, "Jean-Luc persecute" de Claude Goretta).
Participants of the Conference received as a gift of colorful booklets about Switzerland and small collections of fragments from novels by Swiss writer.
