Tag: Books
“The Glass Coffin of Père-Lachaise” by Stéphanie Sauget
/ Podcasts / Book France It is one of the greatest hoaxes of the end of the 19th century and more generally of the attention paid to the dead. Stéphanie…
Books by Pim Lammers are going fast after support in newspaper
For example, the Mulder bookstore in Amsterdam sold five hundred copies of the collection ‘I think I’m kidnapped’ to a secondary school teacher, ‘to distribute to all his students’. The…
Andouillette, botox, Anne Hidalgo… A journey into bad taste with Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves
What is bad taste? Flaubert had his opinion on the question: “It’s invariably the taste of the time that preceded us. Don’t all children find their father ridiculous?” A synonym…
The Pocket Book celebrates its 70th anniversary and publishes a Machiavellian novel
It was in February 1953 that the first “Pocket Books” appeared. Today, with more than a billion copies sold since its creation in 1953, Le Livre de Poche is the…
Salman Rushdie and Iranian youth: the same drive for freedom, by Abnousse Shalmani
He is alive ! damaged but alive! On the occasion of the American release of his new novel, Victory City, Salman Rushdie gave an interview to New Yorker, published on…
The military industry is making a profit and the order books are bulging – now the states are equipping Ukraine and strengthening their own defense with billions
STOCKHOLM For many, Saab brings to mind safe family cars, but today the company manufactures almost all equipment needed in war and defense, but no cars at all. On Friday,…
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.…