Writer and poet Jean Rouaud received the Prix Goncourt in 1990 for his first novel, Les Champs d’honneur. There follows a monumental body of work that unfolds across novels and poetry. With La Maison imaginaire, which interweaves philosophical and religious meditation with autobiographical narrative, he makes the Bible a refuge received as an inheritance. He, whose Christian education taught him to read images but not to comment on the text, attempts to recover the sources of the imagination, which he locates in the sacred texts of Christianity and, in its invisible part, Judaism, and questions this irremissible debt.
Through music, literature or cinema, the programme of the auditorium offers an extension of the fields addressed in the museum and the exhibitions.