Tag: Literature
“The Circle of Terror”, by Céline Martelet and Edith Bouvier
After the fall of the Islamic State group in Syria and Iraq, the jihadists reorganized, still posing a threat. Among them, French jihadists. What have they become ? What future…
Raozy Pellerin, breaking the silence of the fight of refugees in France
Raozy Pellerin was born in Marseille, to parents of Malagasy and Comorian origins, and grew up on the island of Reunion. She studied international law. After several years in the…
Alain Mabanckou, life in the kingdom of the dead
Born in Pointe-Noire in Congo-Brazzaville, Alain Mabanckou teaches today in the United States. Translator, editor, writer, documentary filmmaker, he is the author of numerous essays and novels including porcupine memory…
[En intégral] Laura Sheïlla Inangoma (Burundi): “Memory trial”
A trial. Three women are accused of murder and practicing “barbaric rites” but for lack of bodies, judges, lawyers and witnesses are fighting over what makes tradition and modernity in…
Literature: Alain Mabanckou and “The business of reclining”
At the time of the literary season when 490 new French and foreign novels appear, today’s cultural guest is the writer Alain Mabanckou, who has just published The elongated trade,…
a literary return “worried” for the book, but with star authors
It’s the traditional literary season in France: 490 new novels will be published by mid-October. The figure is lower than usual, 30 less than last year, and 150 less than…
Felwine Sarr, the taste of dreams
Felwine Sarr, recognized as one of the African intellectuals who counts the most on the international scene, he published a learning novel: “The places my dreams live in”, published by…
Paule Constant, on the waves of an African memory
Paule Constant offers us with “The blindness of the rivers”, a journey to the heart of Africa. It recounts the plunge of a Nobel Prize in Medicine into his African…
Elisa Rojas, the little black dress
There is as much difference between us and ourselves as between us and others. Here is a lichette of Montaigne to open in G Major the door to a big…
Geneviève Brisac, Franck Giovannini, Néhémy Pierre Dahomey, Jil Caplan, among others, 7th stage
This week, we take you to discover several personalities. The writer and editor Geneviève Brisac for the unpublished confidence, the Swiss chef Franck Giovannini for the unpublished report, the Haitian…