Translator: eric vautier Reviewer: Cristina Bufi-Pöcksteiner
Good evening everyone.
So you see, I did not come empty handed
I brought my notebook.
It may seem fairly standard, such as book, seen from here,
but for me it is a very important book.
I think if I had to go to a deserted island,
it would be one of the few things I would take with me.
So you see, a good story, it begins with a mystery, a promise.
What is he so important in this book?
Why do I care so much?
So of course, I will not answer you right away,
but we will return.
I leave a few minutes.
Why do we believe in the stories?
Why we like fiction?
And, first, what is a good story?
We can say that a good story is plot twists, suspense …
There is a part that’s true.
But I think it’s a bit more.
A good story is a story where one seeks another worldview.
When reading a book, one escapes,
one is ready to assume the identity of someone else,
can sympathize with criminals, mafia,
people who have experiences, lives,
completely opposite values to ours,
what does not in real life.
Reading puts us in a form of hypnosis,
hypnosis where it would be much more open-minded,
where we would be willing to question our certainties.
Since I am writing, I discovered the power of fiction.
And my belief is that if we defended our ideas
in the same way that tells a story,
we would be much better understood.
Because others would be willing to take a step towards us.
They would be ready to return to our world and to forget their prejudices.
So how do we actually get people in our universe?
How does one tell a good story?
So I do not have the magic formula,
I would, but I have not found it yet.
But by dint of writing, I discovered a few tracks,
and I want to share with you.
So we will go to the other side of the mirror,
the side where you create the account.
First, you need to create images,
images that will evoke something.
For example,
if we want to describe a big city,
if we want to describe to someone in New York,
who would never have heard of New York.
We can say that New York is a city of nine million people,
with enormous skyscrapers.
This is correct, but does it really evocative?
But if I tell you:
“New York is a city standing. “
“A city standing”
This is a quote from “Journey to the End of the Night”.
The novel was written in the 30s.
At the time, the main character, arrived in Manhattan, discovered
for the first time, the skyscrapers.
And what’s interesting is that with that word, “standing”, a simple word –
not even an adjective elsewhere; it’s not even a proper sentence –
but with this word, it was a picture.
Suddenly it is that migrant who arrives in the 30s in Manhattan
and discovers a city vertically.
Another example.
We want to describe the horror of war.
That happens in novels.
We can say :
“It was a terrible massacre.
The soldiers were lying dead on the battlefield. “
It works too; using very strong words,
but does it mean anything?
Does the word sense? Does the word has weight?
But if they say,
as Rimbaud said:
” There are two red holes on the right side. “
This is a much simpler picture.
That’s what a child like discovering the scene.
But we have an image; we feel the horror of war.
I want to tell you :
of course, we will not become Rimbaud overnight,
we will not become Celine
but –
we can all at our level, return to these images,
communicate more easily,
try to convey emotions through these images.
So we can also do with objects,
it is especially in movies.
In spy movies,
we are looking for the top secret microfilm.
And continued by all governments in microfilm.
In the gangster movies, it looks for gold bullion;
they stashed all the bank’s case base.
This is what Hitchcock called a MacGuffin.
A MacGuffin is the object that will launch the action of a film.
But for me, the object has a different value.
In fact, the object is a gateway into a narrative.
I will explain to you.
Suppose I want to tell you a love story.
A love story, we’ve seen it
a billion times in movies and books.
How to get to make it suggestive?
Imagine my main character, for example,
sometimes,
opens his drawer,
and discovered
mail,
a letter from his childhood sweetheart,
and when he found the letter, which he tears up in her eyes.
From there, in fact,
Mail will symbolize the love of youth.
And when we will talk again,
this abstract feeling will be tangible.
When the character goes out the mail,
you will know that it is the love of youth.
And even better: if the story is well told,
in fact, what will happen is that,
when the character will open his drawer,
and out the mail,
you put your own emotion,
you’ll think back to your own childhood sweetheart,
you’ll have your own affect on the letter.
So the object becomes a kind of talisman,
that allows you to enter the account.
And I come from the most important point for me:
it’s a good story,
this is a story where you have a big role.
For example, when you go to the movies, when you go see a horror film,
of course, you jump when the ghost comes on screen,
but I think you even more scared before.
You are afraid, when it is still nothing happened,
when the heroes are walking in an empty house;
you suspect something is going to happen.
And therefore, you do the screenplay.
And from there, in fact,
the listener is much more –
The suggestion has much more strength.
Stephen King said:
“The scary in a book,
this is not the ghost behind the stairs,
is the staircase. “
Small, I thought being a great writer,
was writing a novel than a thousand pages,
a very big novel
I maîtriserais all.
It is As I’ve realized that it was just the opposite.
In fact,
we commit all this error in real life.
When one has an idea dear to our heart, an emotion sometimes
was so keen to convince the other,
was so keen to persuade him,
we will release him full of arguments, we will overwhelm him.
What will happen: the person will be closed,
she will refuse
to accept your point of view, it will close its prejudices.
While I think we bet on people’s intelligence.
It is necessary
give them the keys to our universe.
And then we have a chance, by doing this, the person is convinced,
she says, “It’s about me, it reminds me of something. “
So now, I could let you, since
I said that the author had a secondary role.
But before leaving, I’ll take my notebook.
So, of course, I could tell you what’s inside,
but I think it would break a little mystery.
Because ultimately,
Maybe you have already put some of you in this book.
You may have already thought of the object would you take to a desert island?
So finally, if I said
what I put inside, you would obviously disappointed.
Finally, I would like the “Little Prince”
an extract that you probably know all the famous “Draw me a sheep.”
But I do not know if you really know the text behind.
In fact, the Little Prince asks the flier to draw him a sheep.
The aviator shape in a first,
and the Little Prince said:
“No, this one is too old. Make me another. “
The aviator draws a second sheep.
The Little Prince said, “No, that one has horns, this is not a sheep. “
Airman returns to a third drawing,
a little upset – he is in the desert repairing his plane,
he has other things to do than draw sheep.
But he draws a third.
The little Prince :
“No, this one is too low, it will not last long. “
Then, finally, the pilot draws a box
and makes him: “This is the box.
The sheep you want is inside. “
And the Little Prince meets:
“This is the most beautiful sheep than I could have imagined. “
So if [you have to] remember one thing is that a good story,
it does not draw as beautiful as possible sheep,
is drawing the box.
And then let the person in front of us to do what she wants.
Here.
I think I’ll leave you the mystery of this book,
it is a little bit now.
Thank you.
(Applause)
Good evening everyone.
So you see, I did not come empty handed
I brought my notebook.
It may seem fairly standard, such as book, seen from here,
but for me it is a very important book.
I think if I had to go to a deserted island,
it would be one of the few things I would take with me.
So you see, a good story, it begins with a mystery, a promise.
What is he so important in this book?
Why do I care so much?
So of course, I will not answer you right away,
but we will return.
I leave a few minutes.
Why do we believe in the stories?
Why we like fiction?
And, first, what is a good story?
We can say that a good story is plot twists, suspense …
There is a part that’s true.
But I think it’s a bit more.
A good story is a story where one seeks another worldview.
When reading a book, one escapes,
one is ready to assume the identity of someone else,
can sympathize with criminals, mafia,
people who have experiences, lives,
completely opposite values to ours,
what does not in real life.
Reading puts us in a form of hypnosis,
hypnosis where it would be much more open-minded,
where we would be willing to question our certainties.
Since I am writing, I discovered the power of fiction.
And my belief is that if we defended our ideas
in the same way that tells a story,
we would be much better understood.
Because others would be willing to take a step towards us.
They would be ready to return to our world and to forget their prejudices.
So how do we actually get people in our universe?
How does one tell a good story?
So I do not have the magic formula,
I would, but I have not found it yet.
But by dint of writing, I discovered a few tracks,
and I want to share with you.
So we will go to the other side of the mirror,
the side where you create the account.
First, you need to create images,
images that will evoke something.
For example,
if we want to describe a big city,
if we want to describe to someone in New York,
who would never have heard of New York.
We can say that New York is a city of nine million people,
with enormous skyscrapers.
This is correct, but does it really evocative?
But if I tell you:
“New York is a city standing. “
“A city standing”
This is a quote from “Journey to the End of the Night”.
The novel was written in the 30s.
At the time, the main character, arrived in Manhattan, discovered
for the first time, the skyscrapers.
And what’s interesting is that with that word, “standing”, a simple word –
not even an adjective elsewhere; it’s not even a proper sentence –
but with this word, it was a picture.
Suddenly it is that migrant who arrives in the 30s in Manhattan
and discovers a city vertically.
Another example.
We want to describe the horror of war.
That happens in novels.
We can say :
“It was a terrible massacre.
The soldiers were lying dead on the battlefield. “
It works too; using very strong words,
but does it mean anything?
Does the word sense? Does the word has weight?
But if they say,
as Rimbaud said:
” There are two red holes on the right side. “
This is a much simpler picture.
That’s what a child like discovering the scene.
But we have an image; we feel the horror of war.
I want to tell you :
of course, we will not become Rimbaud overnight,
we will not become Celine
but –
we can all at our level, return to these images,
communicate more easily,
try to convey emotions through these images.
So we can also do with objects,
it is especially in movies.
In spy movies,
we are looking for the top secret microfilm.
And continued by all governments in microfilm.
In the gangster movies, it looks for gold bullion;
they stashed all the bank’s case base.
This is what Hitchcock called a MacGuffin.
A MacGuffin is the object that will launch the action of a film.
But for me, the object has a different value.
In fact, the object is a gateway into a narrative.
I will explain to you.
Suppose I want to tell you a love story.
A love story, we’ve seen it
a billion times in movies and books.
How to get to make it suggestive?
Imagine my main character, for example,
sometimes,
opens his drawer,
and discovered
mail,
a letter from his childhood sweetheart,
and when he found the letter, which he tears up in her eyes.
From there, in fact,
Mail will symbolize the love of youth.
And when we will talk again,
this abstract feeling will be tangible.
When the character goes out the mail,
you will know that it is the love of youth.
And even better: if the story is well told,
in fact, what will happen is that,
when the character will open his drawer,
and out the mail,
you put your own emotion,
you’ll think back to your own childhood sweetheart,
you’ll have your own affect on the letter.
So the object becomes a kind of talisman,
that allows you to enter the account.
And I come from the most important point for me:
it’s a good story,
this is a story where you have a big role.
For example, when you go to the movies, when you go see a horror film,
of course, you jump when the ghost comes on screen,
but I think you even more scared before.
You are afraid, when it is still nothing happened,
when the heroes are walking in an empty house;
you suspect something is going to happen.
And therefore, you do the screenplay.
And from there, in fact,
the listener is much more –
The suggestion has much more strength.
Stephen King said:
“The scary in a book,
this is not the ghost behind the stairs,
is the staircase. “
Small, I thought being a great writer,
was writing a novel than a thousand pages,
a very big novel
I maîtriserais all.
It is As I’ve realized that it was just the opposite.
In fact,
we commit all this error in real life.
When one has an idea dear to our heart, an emotion sometimes
was so keen to convince the other,
was so keen to persuade him,
we will release him full of arguments, we will overwhelm him.
What will happen: the person will be closed,
she will refuse
to accept your point of view, it will close its prejudices.
While I think we bet on people’s intelligence.
It is necessary
give them the keys to our universe.
And then we have a chance, by doing this, the person is convinced,
she says, “It’s about me, it reminds me of something. “
So now, I could let you, since
I said that the author had a secondary role.
But before leaving, I’ll take my notebook.
So, of course, I could tell you what’s inside,
but I think it would break a little mystery.
Because ultimately,
Maybe you have already put some of you in this book.
You may have already thought of the object would you take to a desert island?
So finally, if I said
what I put inside, you would obviously disappointed.
Finally, I would like the “Little Prince”
an extract that you probably know all the famous “Draw me a sheep.”
But I do not know if you really know the text behind.
In fact, the Little Prince asks the flier to draw him a sheep.
The aviator shape in a first,
and the Little Prince said:
“No, this one is too old. Make me another. “
The aviator draws a second sheep.
The Little Prince said, “No, that one has horns, this is not a sheep. “
Airman returns to a third drawing,
a little upset – he is in the desert repairing his plane,
he has other things to do than draw sheep.
But he draws a third.
The little Prince :
“No, this one is too low, it will not last long. “
Then, finally, the pilot draws a box
and makes him: “This is the box.
The sheep you want is inside. “
And the Little Prince meets:
“This is the most beautiful sheep than I could have imagined. “
So if [you have to] remember one thing is that a good story,
it does not draw as beautiful as possible sheep,
is drawing the box.
And then let the person in front of us to do what she wants.
Here.
I think I’ll leave you the mystery of this book,
it is a little bit now.
Thank you.
(Applause)
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