{"id":16584,"date":"2026-09-22T15:08:55","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/labelettres\/?p=16584"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:08:57","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T13:08:57","slug":"an-untold-story-alice-boner-and-p-k-mittra","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.unil.ch\/labelettres\/an-untold-story-alice-boner-and-p-k-mittra\/","title":{"rendered":"An Untold Story: Alice Boner and P.K. Mittra"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Qui \u00e9tait l’homme aux c\u00f4t\u00e9s de l’artiste suisse, \u00e9tablie en Inde, Alice Boner?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

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Au milieu des ann\u00e9es 30, l\u2019artiste, chercheuse et collectionneuse d\u2019art suisse Alice Boner s’installe \u00e0 Varanasi. Elle y rencontre P. K. Mittra, avocat bengali, avec qui elle entame une relation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

S\u2019appuyant sur un riche corpus de sources \u2014 correspondance entretenue durant quarante ans, journaux personnels, photographies et dessins \u2014, cet ouvrage sign\u00e9 Nadia Cattoni (Section de langues et civilisations slaves et de l’Asie du Sud<\/a>) reconstitue leur relation intime et l\u2019entrelacement de leurs trajectoires. Tout en mettant en lumi\u00e8re les r\u00f4les qu\u2019ils jou\u00e8rent dans la vie l\u2019un de l\u2019autre, il s\u2019attache \u00e9galement \u00e0 reconstituer la biographie de Mittra et \u00e0 l’inscrire dans la trajectoire d’une histoire connect\u00e9e.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cette publication richement illustr\u00e9e, faisant dialoguer sources textuelles et visuelles est le fruit d’une collaboration entre la Section de langues et civilisations slaves et de l’Asie du Sud et le Mus\u00e9e Rietberg de Zurich. Elle propose un portrait nuanc\u00e9 et apporte un \u00e9clairage nouveau sur les dynamiques affectives et culturelles \u00e0 l\u2019\u0153uvre dans l’histoire des relations entre l’Inde et la Suisse.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nadia Cattoni, An Untold Story: Alice Boner and P.K. Mittra<\/a><\/em>, Varanasi\/Zurich, Alice Boner Institute, Museum Rietberg, Green Barbet, 2026.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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Nadia Cattoni<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n

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An Untold Story: Alice Boner and P.K. Mittra<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
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Significant Encounters, Significant Others: Essays on South Asian History and Literature<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
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Dev, l\u2019artisan-po\u00e8te du 18\u00e8me si\u00e8cle et la n\u0101yik\u0101 dans le Rasavil\u0101sa. Circulation et \u00e9changes, intertextualit\u00e9 et transformations<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t
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Early Modern India, Literatures and Images, Texts and Languages<\/a><\/h2>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t\t\t\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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