Meeting with Pavlo and Viktoriya Matyusha
The Centre de Recherches Europes-Eurasie-CREE (Inalco), with the support of the Ukrainian Institute, is honored to invite you to meet Pavlo Matyusha and Viktoriya Matyusha around their book Lettres d'amour et de guerre, Éditions de l'Iconoclaste.
This book was written with the contribution of journalist Doan Bui.
Book presentation
In the intimacy of a couple separated by war.
Separated by the war in Ukraine, Viktoriyaand Pavlo Matyusha decided to write letters to each other, in the age of WhatsApp and Facetime. He's a novelist, and although he can't be mobilized - at 40 and father of four - he enlisted as soon as Russia invaded. Viktoriya, a literary agent and interpreter, found refuge in France. Alone with her children in a foreign land, she cannot understand why Pavlo remains at the front. This correspondence becomes an outlet for them. Doan Bui, a great reporter for L'Obs and of Vietnamese origin, finds in their dialogues an echo of the story of her parents, also torn apart by war. She adds her voice-over to their letters, which speak of violence, grief and the sorrow of war,
but not only. In these missives, it is also and above all a question of love.
Several of these letters have already been published by Doan Bui in L'Obs.
Organizer
- Iryna Dmytrychyn (CREE, Inalco)