Tag: French language
The voice elsewhere: ventriloquism, stuttering and other accidents
The voice is an enigma. We have listened to the ventriloquists, in the Bible and in the movies. We have listened to the stutters of Ghérasim Luca or MC Solaar,…
Climate: “Better fight against our collective inaction” thanks to linguistics
This week’s France Book is titled Blah blah blah, end climate talk, published by Robert. The author, Albin Wagener, sociolinguist, dissects the different types of discourse to talk about climate…
Eloquence puts on a show at La Sorbonne
Convincing, moving or persuading are some of the essential qualities for rhetoric. A discipline honored each year by the University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne during the international eloquence competition. Advertisement…
Greenwashing or climatoscepticism, Albin Wagener wants to put an end to climate chatter
” I prefer to speak of climate emergency… In the term emergency, there is the incentive to act quickly, quickly in the face of phenomena which are violent, rapid and…
Zadig Hamroune frees himself from his past in “The Barbarian Night”
“What matters most to me, both as a writer and as a social being, is presence in the world, more than being defined by a written, administrative, social identity or…
The Alfabètes write to rebuild themselves at the Maison de la Poésie with the Samu Social
“What we have the strongest is writing, which for me is my outlet on this sidewalk… Everything that happened with the Maison de la Poésie gives us a certain humanity.…
Theater: The language of Laurance Henry’s “first words”
” What is beautiful with children is the way they knit between reality and imagination. And the way they appropriate what they see to recreate a story. » Prime Words…
Iran told by writers: Naïri Nahapétian and Stéphanie Perez
Nairi Nahapetian was born into an Armenian family in Tehran. A journalist, she is also the author of several novels, for adults and children, including “Who killed Ayatollah Kanuni? (Liana…
In Switzerland: with the writer Peter Stamm and the bookstore “L’etage”
Meeting with Peter Stamm born in 1963 in Switzerland. Journalist, writer, he is the author of a dozen novels since “Agnès” (1998) crowned by the Rauriser Literaturpreis p. He currently…
In Némésis, Tiphaine Raffier transforms the work of Philip Roth into a fantastic dystopia
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “To adapt, you have to try to understand what is at stake, what we liked. And understand how, going through the incarnation, we will come…