Tag: In G major
Caroline Laurent, the ocean identity – In G major
I was hot, but I had feet. I was thirsty and I was ashamed while reading “Shore of Wrath”, Caroline Laurent’s second novel. 400 pages of total immersion in the…
Beata Umubyeyi Mayoress, saved by the language
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is a Franco-Rwandan novelist, winner of the 2020 Five Continents Prize from La Francophonie for her novel “All your children dispersed”. (Replay) She dreamed of being a…
From Ethiopia to the Rhone Valley, Armenia by Boris Adjemian
And here we are right now in April. And because there was 1915, Avril is Armenian. No ESM commemoration, but memory in all cupboards, thanks to Boris Adjemian. The name…
Amala Dianor, bar body
I don’t really know who he is. I know he dances like he breathes. I know talking isn’t his thing. Dancing, flying (from moonwalking to break dancing) being in motion,…
Alberto Manguel, a polygamous reader
It seems that the books breed at night. That’s what I thought I heard in some whispering libraries. It seems thatAlberto Manguel, this reading thinker knows a lot about the…
Solenn Bardet, white woman, red woman
Solenn Bardet is officially known to be a geographer, ethnographer, documentarist, but in reality she comes from countless dreams (as Ariane Mnouchkine would say). Dreams born, lying on a carpet,…
Youenn Roué, Breton swordsman – In G major
This tongue ripples a bit like a wave, he says. In my opinion, the sailor who talks must be Breton or Brittonic. It undulates like a wave coming perhaps from…
Eliette Abécassis, in the name of the father
In the Abécassis family, En Sol Majeur would like the girl. It’s a family where there is a thinker, where there is a go-between. Eliette Abecassis, born at the crossroads…
Once upon a time in the history of France with Amine Adjina
What to do with the History of France? And how to talk about it to the French, convinced that they have the power to mirror themselves in an exclusively white…
John Greaves, a jazz patriot
So it’s understood, John Greaves is unclassifiable. A subtle, elegant musician, singer, pianist, composer, born in the golden years of black and white. In jazz, 1st homeland. But also in…