Tag: Books
Patrick Grainville, Donatella Di Pietrantonio and Guillaume Nail: books not to be missed
Trio of the Ardent By Patrick Grainville. Threshold, 344 p., €21.50. The rating of L’Express: 3/5 Trio of Ardents, by Patrick Grainville (Seuil) © / Threshold Can we imagine more…
Erik Orsenna: “When writing about Bolloré, I expect everything, and I will respond”
Retirement, what retirement ? At 75, Erik Orsenna smiles behind his white mustache, he who combines the missions (ambassador of the Institut Pasteur, president of an international association for the…
“Odyssey of betrayed illusions”: Milan Kundera, his life, his dramas
He might get the Nobel Prize for Literature, or he might not. He might never have ceased to be a Czech citizen, if life had decided otherwise. He is the…
Book sales: when the classification turns into a Spanish inn
What diversity! Rarely have our prize lists been so inhomogeneous. Difficult then to draw lessons on the aspirations of readers as their curiosity seems to be indulging in all directions.…
Claude McKay’s Marseille Harlem
/ Podcasts / The march of the world Welcome to Claude McKay’s Marseille Harlem. The American writer arrived in the French colonial city in the 1920s, frequented dockers and prostitutes…
A story from afar – So far so close
Constantly pushed back, the limits of the known world have always fascinated and worried the West. Conducive to the imagination and to travel, these places were first of all strange…
Paul Auster, Dror Mishani and Emmanuel Flesch: the books not to be missed
country of blood By Paul Auster, trans. of the American by Anne-Laure Tissut. Actes Sud, 208 p., €26. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 Blood Country By Paul Auster, trans. of…
Harmelense collector has 3500 children’s books by WG van der Hulst
Although Boes has never actually met the writer, he has managed to gather a lot of specific knowledge about WG van der Hulst over the years. Like the moment when…
Umberto Eco: the insatiable collector, bibliomaniac and bibliolatrist, by Pierre Assouline
When Samuel Beckett lived on Boulevard de Port-Royal, he offered a carpet to his upstairs neighbors so they wouldn’t hear them walking. Humans wandering over his head prevented him from…
“The French Empire did not allow the development of colonized countries”
In a reference book, researcher Denis Cogneau dismantles certain received ideas about the economic legacy of French colonization. He asserts that the empire set up in Africa and Asia has…