Tag: Literature
Literature: Rwandan novelist Dominique Celis recounts post-genocide society
Thus men cry is the first novel by the Belgian-Rwandan Dominique Celis, published last year. An epistolary story, eminently sensitive and powerful, which puts the Rwandan tragedy back on the…
“These autocrats who unite to destroy democracies”
Are democracies in danger? In “Le pacte des autocrates” published by Robert Laffont, Isabelle Mandraud and Julien Théron analyze the decline of democracies around the world and the repeated efforts…
Didier Eribon, reflections on old age
After the death of his mother, Didier Eribon resumed his work of personal and family exploration. In “Life, old age and death of a working-class woman”, he retraces the life…
The Gabonese mourning of Stève Wilifrid Mounguengui
Here is a traveler who took a one-way ticket for melancholy. A traveler who turns the pages of his country and his first story entitled You made me the one…
The Cuban spleen of a Frenchman, William Navarrete
By closing Cuba spleen by William Navarrete, khlas, finito, terminus, the Cuba postcard with its revolution driving chachacha in old American cars took a hit in the bodywork. In barely…
Delphine Minoui, silence as a weapon of resistance
From a French mother and an Iranian father, Delphine Minoui was born in Paris. A specialist in the Middle East, where she has lived for 25 years, she received the…
How can we draw inspiration from African oral literature to review our relationship to the living?
From Kenya’s lamal ritual songs to West Africa’s tale of the over-skilled hunter, oral literary productions from Africa encourage a less predatory relationship of living beings to the world. A…
Sylvie Brunet and poetesses from around the world
In an anthology bringing together the poems of some thirty authors from around the world, Sylvie Brunet pays tribute to women whose work is familiar to us, and highlights unknown…
The International Festival of the Novel Noir in Frontignan
Direction the south of France, in the town of Frontignan, a few kilometers from Sète. There, last weekend, the International Festival of the Novel Noir took place, which has existed…
Henri Gougaud, the eternal storyteller
Storyteller, novelist and essayist, Henri Gougaud is the author of some forty books, including Albin Michel’s ” The Snow Child », « The Book of Paths », « Little tales…