Tag: Literature
Literature: “Mecano” by Mattia Filice, the art of writing the train
/ Podcasts / In person(s) Mattia Filice’s novel marries the railway rhythm and landscape, transmutes the industrial universe of the train, machines and stations into romantic prowess, in a diverted…
Xavier Mauduit, specialist in the Second Empire, author of “Napoleon III”
Pierre-Édouard Deldique receives in Ideas, under the theme of Napoleon III: Xavier Mauduit, associate professor, doctor of history, specialist in the Second Empire, author of “Napoleon IIIto PUFs. From his…
“Finishing a teacher: can we reconcile with college?”, by Mara Goyet
/ Podcasts / Book France The history and geography teacher in college Mara Goyet recounts in her book her 25 years of profession and her unwavering enthusiasm. finish teacher sounds…
Revisiting the darkness of colonial Mozambique, with Portuguese-speaking Mia Couto
A great name in contemporary African Portuguese letters, Mia Couto writes for ” teach readers to dream “. Journalist, poet, novelist, columnist, storyteller, he is the author of a sumptuous…
Cécile Ladjali, breaking the silence and finding the right words
Of Iranian origin, Cécile Ladjali is an associate of modern letters. She lives in Paris where she teaches literature and playwriting at La Salle Blanche (“laboratory of the actor-researcher”). She…
Lydie Salvayre, the savior – In G major
/ Podcasts / In G major Between shadow and light, there is Lydie Salvayre. From book to book, the gloomy, the blackness of the world, the shadow is mocked by…
“Facing the West, China, thanks to its “circle of friends”, aspires to a dominant position”
Where is China going, when Xi Jinping ordered the reopening of the country on January 8, in the midst of a dizzying recovery from the Covid-19 pandemic? Since that day,…
The ogres of Barback, on the way to childhood
Group member “The Ogres of Barback»Alice Burguière presents “Pitt Ocha and the sound-powered bicycle”, a book-disc for young and old where the atmosphere is more than festive. It seems that…
Colson Whitehead, the powerful breath of American literature
Born in New York in 1969, Colson Whitehead is one of the very few American writers to have been awarded the Pulitzer Prize twice, for his two previous novels “Underground…
Lionel Shriver, we will grow old together… or not
With his caustic irony, his sense of the absurd and the sweet cruelty that characterize his style, Lionel Shriver offers us a novel full of bursts of laughter, as surprising…