Tag: Books
After the “Brèves de counter”, Jean-Marie Gourio declares his love for French cafes – L’Express
The younger ones may not remember it, but the Briefs from the counter by Jean-Marie Gourio (around fifteen volumes from 1987 to 2015) were a huge success in bookstores (as…
who sells the most between Salomé Saqué, Maryse Burgot and Julia de Funès? – The Express
As for the tests, many changes, as usual, with no less than seven entries this week. With, in the first place, Salomé Saqué and her Resist (Payot). The 29-year-old journalist,…
these beautiful feathers of the thriller which will resurrect the “Octopus” – L’Express
It was in 1995, Jean-Bernard Pouy created the character of Gabriel Lecouvreur, known as “The Octopus”, published by Baleine. The Octopus? An anti-SAS, neither a cop nor a private detective,…
why the author has earned his place in the pantheon of letters – L’Express
It’s fun to reopen today HP Lovecraft: against the world, against lifethe essay that Houellebecq published in 1991, when he was still an unknown 35-year-old. We glean sentences like these:…
In a South Korea that reads little, the Nobel Prize causes sales of Han Kang’s books to explode
In South Korea, the Nobel Prize for Literature awarded to Han Kang caused sales of his books to explode. The very evening of his selection to the prestigious Swedish academy,…
Do you think you know everything about Tintin or Asterix? These two books might surprise you – L’Express
Little chance that there was consultation. But the fact is there: the two most emblematic figures of the comic book planet are the subject of a return to their sources…
when women’s fights take over the charts – L’Express
Feminine, the entries in our test list are certainly feminine. Women in mourning, women in combat, women in fashion, “comforting” women… This is the case of Anne-Dauphine Julliand, 7th in…
who among those selected for the grand prizes is in the lead? – The Express
The second lists of the grand prizes of the fall having fallen – the French Academy, the last to the maneuver, having concocted its own Thursday afternoon -, this is…
The Nobel Prize in Literature awarded to South Korean novelist Han Kang – L’Express
South Korean literature is in the spotlight. The Nobel Prize for Literature was awarded this Thursday, October 10, to South Korean author Han Kang, 53. The writer, who writes poems…
when Maylis de Kerangal tells of Le Havre, her “Stalingrad-sur-Seine” – L’Express
From her, from her books, the reader remembers above all that she projects into literature a profession, a technique which only rarely appears there. Heart transplantation in Repair the livingconstruction…