Meeting with Clara Marchaud
The Centre de Recherches Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco), with the support of the Ukrainian Institute, is honored to invite you to meet Clara Marchaud around her book Un si long mois de février. An intimate history of the war in Ukraine, Éditions Plein jour.
Presentation of the book
How does one live day-to-day during a war? How do you wash when there's no water or electricity? What do you choose to take with you on the subway when bombs are raining down on your neighborhood? What kind of future do you see ahead of you when you're under 30?
Clara Marchaud lived in a flat-share with friends in Kyiv before the Russian invasion of Ukraine. She recounts the panic of February 24, 2022, the race to shelters, the escape on crowded trains. Then, as the war takes hold, she explores the subjects that, little by little, impose themselves on everyone: commitment, the choice of whether or not to go abroad, the discovery of hatred and anger, which invade even your relationships with loved ones, but also love in the time of fighting, and moments of joy, when everything, for a moment, seems to return to normal.
From now on, the population remains faced with an existential challenge: to live in chaos, but to live all the same.
Author's biography
Clara Marchaud (class of 20), a graduate of the Sciences Po School of Journalism, has been based in Kyiv since 2021, where she is a correspondent for L'Express, Le Figaro and Médiapart. Un si long mois de février is her second book.
ORGANIZER
- Iryna Dmytrychyn (CREE, Inalco)