Imre Kertész : par Margaux Eskenazi

An intimate, poetic and musical immersion in a selection of pieces from the work of Imre Kertész. Part of 'Vives mémoires'.

Joined by Malik Soarès on lap steel guitar and Kenza Lalaa performing, Margaux Eskenazi offers an intimate, poetic and musical journey through a selection of pieces from the work of Imre Kertész, with whom she has been in dialogue for several years and whose vital texts she never ceases to draw out. Following the triptych she developed from 2017 to 2022 with Nous sommes de ceux qui disent non à l'ombre, Et le cœur fume encore and 1983, Margaux Eskenazi is launching a new line of research into Kertész's literature, in a diptych made up of Kaddish, mémoires – partie 1, created in June 2024 at Théâtre Nanterre-Amandier, and its second part, Kaddish, la femme chauve en peignoir rouge, created at La rose des vents in Lille in January 2026. Musical reading by Kenza Laala, actress, and Malik Soarès, musician.

As part of VIVES MEMOIRES: since 2024, the Théâtre de la Ville and the Mémorial de la Shoah have continued their collaboration, offering distinctive gatherings that blend artistic performances, encounters and exchanges around the transmission and dialogue of memories. This season, we renew this invitation to think together, in a spirit of sharing and awakening: share to learn and to feel; awaken to understand and to act. Through stories, literary works and testimonies, accompanied by artists, historians and committed public figures, these encounters offer keys to grasping the troubled times we live in today, to better facing those of tomorrow, and to reaffirming what unites us: our common humanity.