Tag: Literature
Rachid Santaki: hated or adored, can a dictation change everything?
An outdated exercise for some, an essential learning tool for others, a humiliating test for spelling dummies, or Madeleine de Proust for good students, can a dictation really change the…
Two and a half months after his attack, Salman Rushdie is still suffering
Stabbed in August in the United States, the British writer Salman Rushdie has since lost the sight of one eye and the use of one hand, among other serious consequences,…
“Confidences of a French Intelligence Agent”, by Guilhem Giraud
Former agent of the Directorate of Territorial Surveillance (DST, now DGSI), Guilhem Giraud is a specialist in wiretapping. In Confidences of a French intelligence agent (Robert Laffont editions), he points…
Titaua Peu, to put an end to the silences of his country Tahiti
Author with an eminently political commitment, Titaua Peu writes a realistic Polynesian society, far from illusory clichés. She represents one of the main French-speaking voices of Pacific literature. Mutisms, her…
Between literature and politics, with the Ivorian Gauz’
In 2014, the Ivorian Gauz’ took the literary world by storm with Standing Paid, a debut novel that reads like a fierce satire of consumer society seen through the eyes…
“Wine in China is experienced as a luxury product, but it is disconnected from the terroir”
“Tibetan Antilope Castle” is how a wine estate located in Bordeaux in France, was renamed after being bought by Chinese investors. As the 20th Congress of the Chinese Communist Party…
Death of the French writer Jean Teulé, great enemy of boredom
Jean Teulé, a self-taught writer who became very popular as a TV columnist in the 1990s, died on Tuesday October 18 at the age of 69. According to a press…
Marc Dugain, the writer who loved spies
After having lived the first seven years of his life in Senegal, Marc Dugain returned to France with his parents. At 35, he wrote his first novel, The Officers’ Room…
Literature: Teddy’s autobiography, Allen Weiss’ library trip
A move to Manhattan is an opportunity for author Allen S. Weiss to take inventory of his library. During the long hours spent between the dust and the boxes, he…
Nadia Yala Kisukidi, the art of dissociation
If you ever go shopping this literary season, you can stock up on essentials. Thanks to a single novel, where it is a question of joy, daydreaming, assumed madness, political…