This chilly Easter weekend I’m in Paris for the 3rd Conference of the European Narratology Network. Here’s some pics of the venue: a lovely and extremely varied campus, if a little run-down in places:

The delegates gather.

Brian Richardson delivers the one of the first keynote speeches on Friday morning.

Human sacrifices entirely absent!

Exciting but brutal modernist workout. Derelict.

Interesting juxtaposition: Bauhaus-style building with man-monkey statues.

Raphaël Baroni delivers the final keynote on Saturday afternoon.

The conference? I delivered my paper yesterday and it went as well as could be expected. Overall? Let’s just say that I found the limits of my interest in narrative quite early on…