Tag: French language
In his novel “Connemara”, Nicolas Mathieu offers a teenage parenthesis to his characters
Winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2018 for Their children after themthe writer Nicolas Mathieu tells us about his new novel, Connemarapublished by Actes Sud. Taking place in the east…
Is classifying ways of speaking classifying people?
Is there a linguistic norm, a good way to speak? Why are certain ways of speaking considered faults? Advertising And how are perceived people who do not express themselves, according…
“The song of the living”: repairing the wounds of exile
Crossing deserts or seas, imprisonment, torture, time in prison… the majority of the exiled people who came suffered from serious psychological trauma. Since 2016, the Limbo association has organized stays…
The sounds to say it – Silence
Presentation of the series: The sounds to say it Beyond their meaning, the sound of the words evokes what they convey. If poetry has been played since the dawn of…
Music: Bantunani, for a happy and mixed Francophonie
For several years, the Afrofunk artist Bantunani has been working for the Francophonie in his country, the DRC, via the program “la Lettre Française”. His latest album “Cosmogony” mixes several…
The sounds to say it – Fracas
Presentation of the series: The sounds to say it Beyond their meaning, the sound of the words evokes what they convey. If poetry has been played since the dawn of…
Michèle Rakotoson, remembering the colonial war in Madagascar
Michèle Rakotoson was born in Madagascar. Writer and playwright, she was also a journalist and head of literary events at RFI. In 2012, she was named Commander of Malagasy Arts…
Please ! Politeness over words and history
“Too polite to be honest” “Be polite if you’re not pretty”. No one is indifferent to politeness and its sometimes bombastic formulas! How to define it today? How has it…
François Jost: but what are you “memes” talking about?
You probably know the ” memes ! You know, these animated, transformed, diverted images that flood the web to make us laugh, criticize, denounce, make us think. Some have become…
The sounds to say it – Scream
Presentation of the series: The sounds to say it Beyond their meaning, the sound of the words evokes what they convey. If poetry has been played since the dawn of…