Enlarge: The Alliance Française of Buenos Aires announced the launch of a new annual training program, Proyecto Cyrano, led by an author and editor Gonzalo Garceswith the aim of exploring the richness of French culture in dialogue with its authors and the major contemporary themes, from love and pleasure to religions and politics.
The course – which will be offered in a mixed system of virtual and in-person – will take place in nine thematic units on Thursdays from 6:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. from March to November 2026. to 8:00 p.m. It includes special meetings with local and international artists, historians, journalists and scientists. The visit of the The French writer Michel Houellebecq.
The Cyrano Project brings together literature, history, philosophy, science and art. Why is it called that? “We must not forget that Cyrano de Bergerac, before he became the romantic swordsman in Edmond Rostand’s work, was a real person, the journalist and polemicist who wrote Comic history of the states and empires of the moon. It represents the best of France: generosity, curiosity, adventurous spirit coupled with critical spirit“Garcés tells LA NACION. The author of The refugee He is a member of the board of the French Alliance.
To participate in Project Cyrano it is not necessary to speak French, but it is advisable to share the motivation for intellectual training in adulthood, the love of knowledge and the cultivation of a broad and interdisciplinary perspective. It will be you three virtual courses per monthweekly, and a monthly face-to-face meeting in the library of the French Alliance Headquarters (946 Córdoba Avenue) with simultaneous broadcast for those unable to attend. It costs $105,000 per month ($100,000 for Alliance Française community members).
In March the question “The West and Religions” will be discussed; “The Psychology of Love” in April; in May “Democracy, Authoritarianism, Totalitarianism” and in June “History of Pleasure.” Post-war Europe will be analyzed in July; In August the thematic unit is “The Wealth of Nations” and in September “Evolutionary Psychology”. In October it’s the turn of “Stories and Lives” (about the stories that structure the human experience, from myth to politics) and in November it’s “Discontent in the Modern World”, where Houellebecq’s work (and persona) comes to the fore to address the problems of technology, affection and loneliness in late modernity.
“Houellebecq believes that the political process in Argentina in recent years is part of a rebellion against the elites that can also be observed in France.for example in the yellow vest movement – reveals Garcés–. He will talk about it when he comes. He has been a great admirer of our country since he first visited it and wants to get to know it further.” In the meantime, the hosts are preparing a unique tour for the author of The map and the territorythat could be recorded on printed pages.
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