Tag: Literature
Djo Ngeleka (Democratic Republic of Congo): “The Lake”
It’s morning, it looks like six o’clock, a crowd is claiming that a body has fallen into a lake, or what everyone has decided to call “lake” because there is…
Literature: Colette – Portrait of an author by an author
January 28, 2023 will mark the 150th anniversary of Colette’s birth. Writer, music hall star, journalist, first woman to receive a state funeral in France, whose sulphurous love life has…
“The beaches of embarkation” relates the daily life of migrants from Nord-Pas-de-Calais
In 2022, it is estimated that 45,000 migrants attempted to cross the Channel to go to the United Kingdom where, unlike France, they do not need papers to work. The…
In the heat of the barbaric night, with the Franco-Algerian Zadig Hamroune
Lovers of Caravaggio, Flaubert and Mozart, Zadig Hamroune delivers with The barbaric night a lyrical autobiographical novel, structured as a substitute for impressionist frescoes where the images have the color…
Arthur Teboul pours out his minute poems
” We all have a whisper in our head all the time. What’s hard is accepting it, hearing it, then writing it down. (Replay) Band Lyrics Writer Fire! Chatterton, Arthur…
Raphaël Confiant breathes new life into the rue Blomet ball
” The place has become a place of living together, of populations that should never have rubbed shoulders. (Replay) In his new novel The rue Blomet ball », Raphaël Confiant…
“Far too small”: when Darmanin resuscitates anti-licentious literature censorship
For Beauvau, the novel is “pornographic content”. Sales of way too small, a children’s novel written by Manuel Causse, was banned for children under 18 by a decree published in…
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…