Tag: Books
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…
Book sales: these novelists propelled in the ranking by social networks
You will have to get used to it. New names appear in our list of fiction, which you have not necessarily heard of until now, any more than literary criticism…
Russia is rewriting the history books – in the future, middle schoolers will be told more about war heroes and the reasons for the “special operation” in Ukraine
The Minister of Education justifies the textbook reform by, among other things, that “the West is waging an information war against Russia”. That is why schools should tell more about…
With “Offenses”, Constance Debré mixes the thought of Bossuet and the language of Thomas Bernhard
Offenses By Constance Debre. Flammarion, 122 pages, €17.50. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 Offenses By Constance Debré. © / flammarion Constance Debré divides even more than Annie Ernaux: the “left”…
With “Offenses”, Constance Debré mixes the thought of Bossuet and the language of Thomas Bernhard
Offenses By Constance Debre. Flammarion, 122 pages, €17.50. The rating of L’Express: 4/5 Offenses By Constance Debré. © / flammarion Constance Debré divides even more than Annie Ernaux: the “left”…