Tag: In person(s)
Save regional languages with Michel Feltin-Palas
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “A language is a dialect with an army and a navy”Max Weinreinch, linguist. It is with this edifying quote that Michel Feltin-Palas’ book opens, a…
Tahar Ben Jelloun: his Morocco is written in French
In this Francophonie week, the Franco-Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun recounts his relationship to the French language, and presents his new novel, Casablanca lovers. “It is with the French language…
A history of the Francophonie with Thi Hoai Trang Phan-Labays
/ Podcasts / In person(s) March 20 is International Francophonie Day. The opportunity to return to the birth of the term “Francophonie”, its evolution over fifty years, and to question…
Crossing borders with poets Sophie Nauleau and Tanella Boni
” There terra incognita inside me had sacralized space and distances to the detriment of time and events. The abscissa and the ordinate of the days have never been, I…
The Poetic Paradise of Gustave Roud by Claire Jaquier
“How beautiful this morning, the harvest beginning! Barely taken, the gray and pink road | between rows of shining pear trees is peopled with mowers. One sings, the other whistles,…
Jacques Weber shares fifty years of emotions
” I spoke to him in a low voice, under his closed eyes I was sure that the forces of the spirit remained attentive: “I love you so much.” I…
The nouchi at the Palace of Belles-Lettres with Henri Michel Yéré
“My hoba hoba pierces walls! » – « I mean that my word demolishes the walls! » Henri-Michel Yéré’s new poetic collection is written in nouchi – a living language…
Lydie Salvayre questions the future of literature
“What will become of literature if it becomes globalized, therefore simplified to be accessible to all, to have the language of everyone, speaking the globish, by erasing all singularity? I…
Bringing anonymous people back to life with Blandine Savetier
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “I immediately liked A wildcat step, because Marie NDiaye addresses – with great finesse – the question of racism, that of difference and the black…
Kossi Efoui, ordinary magic
Kossi Efoui was born in 1962 in Togo. His participation in the student movement of the 1980s, harshly repressed by the regime of General Eyadéma, led him to prison and…