The Bone War: Towards a learned fiction

About this event Soon all this energy and violence, all his excess and obsession, will focus on a single person: an opponent worthy of him, as relentless as he is vindictive, as proud as he is megalomaniacal, a rival whom he will hate all the more because he first loved him. At the end of the nineteenth century, two American professors – Othniel Charles Marsh and Edward Drinker Cope – launched one of the most extraordinary rivalries in the history of science: a bone war fought over dinosaur skeletons buried in the badlands of the American West. To gain supremacy over the nascent field of paleontology, they and their teams would stop at nothing: theft, espionage, corruption, and violence. In conversation with Patrick Bray, Benjamin Hoffmann will present his newest novel, La Guerre des os (D