The transmission of violence and trauma between generations is the foundation for the latest novel by the French writer Jean-Baptiste del Amo. Le fils de l’homme is the story of a man who comes back to his partner and his son after a long absence and who takes them to live in a remote mountain home, as his father once did with him. But the mother and son soon feel claustrophobic under the control of a father tormented by his own relationship with his parent. Speaking to Juan Mauel Ruiz, the author will talk about how this novel came about, and about some of his themes, such as the transmission of violence within a family and man’s domination of nature.

Simultaneous interpreting from French to Spanish available