It was thought that the greatest hits of Florent Pagny’s career were behind him. Against all odds, this singer considered old-fashioned lands a bestseller with his autobiography Pagny by Florent. It was just as naively believed that there was only one left for the new King Charles III, and his ugly duckling son, Prince Harry, is making his way up our list. Finally, we are told that only women now read and that Frédéric Beigbeder has alienated all women, and yet his Confessions of a Slightly Overwhelmed Heterosexual meet their audience. Being banned from the charts, from the English court and from France Inter: three effective ways to find a second wind in bookstores.
In a world that is not close to a paradox, Louis-Ferdinand Céline continues his triumph with The Will of King Krogold. The vituperating misanthrope with a willingly hermetic style takes himself here for Chrétien de Troyes: obviously, it is a vein that pleases in 2023. Louis-Henri de La Rochefoucauld
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4. karma red
By Jean-Christophe Grange
Karma Red By Jean-Christophe Grange
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The author took a liking to space and time travel. With his previous book, The Promises, Grange transported us to the heart of Nazi Germany. Here he revisits May 68, between Paris, India and Rome. Change of scenery guaranteed: in the countries crossed, but also in the somewhat caustic gaze that the novelist has on the ideologies of that time…
4. The Wear of a World. A crossing of Iran
By Francois-Henri Desrable
The Wear of a World. A crossing of Iran By François-Henri Désérable
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A great admirer of Nicolas Bouvier, Désérable planned to redo the trip made by the Swiss writer to Iran in 1953. Except that he landed last winter in a country in full uprising. On the spot, he drew this story where we see him trudge from Tehran to Balochistan, as close as possible to Iranian youth. To him the sales figures of Sylvain Tesson?
Germany
Noch wach?
Von Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
Germany Noch wach? Von Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre
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The #MeToo movement seen from Berlin: a year and a half ago, Julian Reichelt, editor-in-chief of Picture, was sacked for abuse of power over several women. Himself a former collaborator of Axel Springer (the press group owning Picture), Benjamin von Stuckrad-Barre was inspired by this affair to write this roman à clefs which caused a sensation in Germany: 160,000 copies were printed, Noch wach? is at the top of the best sellers of the Spiegel.