Tag: Literature
“Boniments” by F. Bégaudeau: our language, monopolized by merchants?
“The language of capitalism must not be unmasked, it must be dry-screened for precision. » From liberalism to algorithms, passing through burnout, transclasses and the scooter, François Bégaudeau delivers, through…
Back to ancient Greece, with Sandrine Alexandre and Caroline Fourgeaud-Laville
/ Podcasts / Ideas Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Idées, under the theme of ancient Greece: Sandrine Alexandre, normalien, agrégée and doctor of Philosophy, author of “24 hours in the life…
Claude McKay’s Marseille Harlem
/ Podcasts / The march of the world Welcome to Claude McKay’s Marseille Harlem. The American writer arrived in the French colonial city in the 1920s, frequented dockers and prostitutes…
Seynabou Sonko, pirate of words
/ Podcasts / In G major I damage you, damage me, I must forget you. I’m the djinn of my djinn, I’m screwed up. His first novel begins like this,…
Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba, writing and fighting before the planet burns
In 2013, Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba left her job, her home and her family in Montreal, and settled in a wooden cabin in the Kamouraska region of Quebec. She spent three years…
The two loves of Malagasy Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (1)
Between French and his Malagasy language, his heart swayed for a long time. He eventually wrote in both languages. An immense writer from the beginning of the last century, Rabearivelo…
Alice Dumas Kol, return to Cambodia in the footsteps of her family history
Alice Dumas Kol was born in New York in 1989 and grew up in Paris. She exercises her profession as a psychoanalyst there after having worked for the ballet Preljocaj…
Theater – Olivia Rosenthal and Mathieu Touzé are not here to disappear
/ Podcasts / In person(s) “I want to keep the indeterminacy of the voices which, in Olivia Rosenthal’s text, echoes the loss of identity. The body of the actor will…
Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, the undesirables in gold letters
The Nobel Prize for Literature in 2008 returns today with a collection of eight short stories that highlight the “undesirables”. Through his pen and his humanism, Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio…
What do migrations do to languages, and languages to migrations?
“It is in languages that everything is played out: exile, asylum, encounters, culture…“. With anthropologists, sociologists and sociolinguists, Marie-Caroline Saglio-Yatzimirsky conducted the survey for four years in migrant reception centers…