Tag: Literature
“Roald Dahl affair”: why children’s literature is the most affected by rewrites
Scandal in the country of Willy Wonka. For its 2022 reissue of Roald Dahl’s books, the great British house Puffin has decided – in agreement with its heirs – to…
Philippe Claudel, under the dark empire of the human soul
Philippe Claudel, Prix Goncourt des lycéens in 2007 for “Le rapport de Brodeck” and Prix Renaudot in 2003 for “Lesâmes grises”, returns today with “ Dusk » a new novel…
Roald Dahl’s books rewritten: “A distressing view of children’s literature”
The Puffin publishing house has announced new versions of children’s novels by Roald Dahl, author among others of Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Matilda Or Fantastic Master Fox. Several hundred…
Offenses by Constance Debré, deliver us from evil
After her autobiographical trilogy, the former lawyer Constance Debré returns this time with a fiction. A novel that questions justice in France today in a style that is still just…
Alima Hamel sings of exile – In person (s) voice
” I want to sing. Music keeps me alive. I sing Souad and Camélia. I sing Feriel. I sing Dhour. » Medea Mountains is the narration of exiles, that of…
Oliver Rohe: “To remember that water does not die is to show that life does not die”
It took him more than 30 years before he could recount his teenage years in the midst of the civil war in Lebanon. In Chant seaside, the author retraces daily…
Andreï Makine, the Russian heartbreak
I see him as an immortal (which he is) in a writer’s hideout that feels like a writing bunker. That’s what I imagine. What an honor in G Major to…
“The Beaten” by Louis Witter, in the hell of Calais
/ Podcasts / Book France Photojournalist Louis Witter spent 18 months near Calais with exiles waiting to cross the 30 kilometers of sea that separate France from England, the last…
Literature: writing or life, according to Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (2/2)
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo is Madagascar’s greatest poet. In this second part of the chronicle “Writing paths” devoted to the biography of this writer and poet published by the researcher Claire Riffard,…
Tsering Yangzom Lama, his love song for Tibet
Tsering Yangzom Lama was born and raised in Nepal, where her family settled after fleeing Tibet in 1960. She has since lived in Toronto, Vancouver and New York. A graduate…