Tag: Literature
Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves savors the bad taste
The rich collection of love dictionaries ” editions Plon, publishes today that of Nicolas d’Estienne d’Orves. The journalist and writer invites us with finesse and in all bias (even sometimes…
Gérald Garutti manifesto for the arts of the word
” The embodiment of meaning is the heart of speech “. It is through theatre, through its activity of transmission as well, that Gérald Garutti examines the role of speech.…
Laurence Campa – In G major
Modest and refined, in an innate way. A modesty and a refinement that comes from a lost country and the dancing serpent. Between a Vietnamese page and a poem à…
Denis Cogneau: “A cheap empire, history and political economy of French colonization”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Ideas, whose theme this week is The cost of French colonization: Denis Cogneau, professor at the Paris School of Economics, research director at the Research Institute…
“Police: the law of omerta”, co-written by Agnès Naudin
/ Podcasts / Book France Fabien Bilheran, ex-policeman, and Agnès Naudin, police captain, co-wrote Police: the law of omerta, published by Le Cherche Midi. Six police whistleblowers describe their daily…
Colette, the French writer celebrated 150 years after her birth
Exactly 150 years ago, on January 28, 1873, Sidonie Gabrielle Colette was born, who became “Colette”, the pen name under which she signed her literary work, consisting of around sixty…
In search of paradise lost, with South African Karel Schoeman
The South African Karel Schoeman is the author of fifteen novels, but the man was also a historian, biographer and translator. Seven of his novels have been translated into French,…
Jennifer Haigh, an American novelist in the reconquest of women’s rights
Jennifer Haigh was born in 1968 in Barnesboro, Pennsylvania. She studied in France and first turned to journalism, before devoting herself to literature. She wrote her first novel while living…
Literature: Colette – Portrait of an author by an author
January 28 will mark the 150th anniversary of Colette’s birth. Writer, music hall star, journalist, first woman to receive a national funeral in France, whose sulphurous love life has caused…
Julien Decoin, the novel of the father, the daughter and the sea
In his new novel, Julien Decoin ventures with sensitivity and tenderness into the breath of paternal love. It is the novel of the father, the daughter and the sea. The…