Episodes
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
August 22, 2021
During a summer afternoon of 1862, Lewis Caroll, takes for a ride the three daughters of Liddell, one of her is Alice. For them, he invents a tale, about a big white rabbit, who passes very close to a little girl also named Alice. She discovers a fantastic underground world...
The Trial by Franz Kafka
August 29, 2021
Kafkaesque! This is the right word to describe this incredible, even miraculous, journey of the work of the Prague German-speaking writer. When Kafka died at 40 in 1924, he ordered his friend and executor Max Brod to burn everything down, although he had only published short texts …
Don Giovanni by Mozart
August 29, 2021
Mozart himself said about his Don Giovanni: this work is divine, it is perhaps even more beautiful than "The Marriage of Figaro". When he was commissioned by the director of the Prague theater in January 1787, he had eight months left to create one of the most powerful operas in the repertoire.
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
August 29, 2021
Victor Hugo spent 16 years writing “Les Misérables”, between Paris, Guernsey and Waterloo. It was a long creative process and not only because the manuscript has 828 leaves. The story of the writing of “Les Miserables” was a true serial novel, very 19th century style.
