Tag: Literature
De Gaulle, Joan of Arc or François I: how to reconstruct the great voices of the past?
/ Podcasts / In person(s) Thanks to artificial intelligence, journalists from Le Monde and IRCAM researchers reconstructed General de Gaulle’s June 18 speech, of which no recording existed. How do…
The Pocket Book celebrates its 70th anniversary and publishes a Machiavellian novel
It was in February 1953 that the first “Pocket Books” appeared. Today, with more than a billion copies sold since its creation in 1953, Le Livre de Poche is the…
The chameleon gaze of Cléa Chakraverty
Cléa Chakraverty seems to have had a thousand lives already, a thousand and one boarding passes, a few thousand pages to return for newspapers, and a mountain of questions under…
“In the Mediterranean, China has been able to seduce European ports”
China has been successfully establishing itself in European ports in the Mediterranean for more than fifteen years. From Piraeus to Athens to Bilbao, the major Chinese operators are acquiring the…
Paul Pavlowitch, a writer’s life between Émile Ajar and Romain Gary
Paul Pavlowitch is a writer. All Immortals is his seventh book. He embodied the character of Émile Ajar, author’s name of the novel among others The life ahead (Prix Goncourt…
Moving entry of Mario Vargas Llosa into the French Academy
It’s a big day for Peruvian-Spanish writer Mario Vargas Llosa. Author of a grandiose work, essays, theater and more than twenty novels written in Spanish, the Nobel Prize for Literature…
Mario Vargas Llosa at the French Academy, an entry under the spotlight
This Thursday, February 9, the writer Mario Vargas Llosa, Nobel Prize for Literature in 2010, enters the French Academy. After being elected in 2021, the 86-year-old Spanish author of Peruvian…
Senghor and the arts, reinventing the universal
Through works of art and unpublished documents, the Quai Branly museum pays a vibrant tribute and paints an original portrait of Léopold Sédar Senghor, the first president of Senegal after…
“And by the power of a word”: in the footsteps of the poem “Liberté” by Paul Eluard
Xavier Donzelli tells us the true story of a poem that brings hope during the Occupation. A novel in which a poem is the hero! Xavier Donzelli conducted the investigation…
Six months after his violent assault, Salman Rushdie says he struggles to write
For the first time since he was stabbed in the United States in August, the British writer Salman Rushdie confides this Monday, February 6, having a lot of trouble writing…