Tag: Literature
“IS has lost popular support but retains a margin of sympathy”
Six years after the fall of Raqqa, the capital of the Islamic State group’s caliphate, violence continues even if on a reduced scale. In Is the Islamic State defeated? ?published…
“Room 406, the Pablo Neruda affair”, investigation into the death of the Nobel Prize for Literature
On September 23, 1973, the writer Pablo Neruda died suddenly in a clinic in Santiago, Chile. Twelve days after Pinochet’s coup d’état, this death of the Nobel Prize winner for…
Jean-Michel Delacomptée for his book: “Jean de la Fontaine, portrait of an apple tree in flower”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Idées Jean-Michel Delacomptée for his book “Jean de la Fontaine, portrait of an apple tree in flower”. How have the fables of a 17th century poet…
“The replacement, diary of a precarious suburban teacher”, by Nedjib Sidi Moussa
In France, this start of the school year is marked by the lack of teachers in middle and high schools, hence the use of contract teachers. Nedjib Sidi Moussa is…
Laurent Binet leads the investigation at the Medici court
Laurent Binet was a literature teacher for ten years in Seine-Saint-Denis. He is the author of HHhH (2010, Goncourt Prize for the first novel), The seventh function of language (2015,…
The writer Laurent Binet for his novel “Perspective(s)”
After several novels which were already part of great history, the Second World War or the Inquisition, Laurent Binet continues to explore the eras with his new novel entitled Perspective(s)…
Women’s sound library, plea for a heritage
Do we really know Olympe de Gouges, Audre Lorde or even Catherine Colomb? With his literary installation, the Women’s Sound Library, Julie Gilbert brings these writers to life, some of…
France, guest country of the Medellin Book Fair
For this 17th edition, the Medellin Book and Culture Fair has chosen France as the guest country. Its literature and culture are represented by French authors and artists. Since September…
Nicolas Chemla looks into “The Abyss”
“ The abyss » Nicolas Chemla’s new novel is hypnotic, fascinating and terribly frightening. Between black masses, backrooms, an enigmatic cat, a diary, an American just settled in Paris, a…
Claude Burgelin, author of a biography of Georges Perec
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Ideas: Claude Burgelin, professor emeritus of Contemporary Literature at the University Lyon-2 Louis-Lumière. Author of a biography of Georges Perec, published by Gallimard. He died young,…