Catherine Millet tries to unravel the mysterious intertwining of chances, confused desires, more or less well-understood opportunities that lead a young girl with no luggage, no money and no great culture to leave her suburbs for Saint-Germain-des-Prés. artists and art galleries. Personal life and professional life inevitably intertwine.
The era was May 68 in Paris and the emergence of the SoHo district in New York, the appearance of an art that did not resemble art, the birth of what is now called ” contemporary art “.
Guest: Catherine Millet, for her autobiographical novel “Beginnings” published by Flammarion, the author of the sulphurous “The sexual life of Catherine M.” recounts her youth in St Germain des Prés in the 1968s, and her encounters with young artists.