Tag: Literature
Literature: the "romance" at the top of sales
We’re going to have to get used to it, whether we’re happy about it or saddened by it, romance, new Or dark, has invaded our fiction charts. No longer a…
“A life that rears up” by Sylvain Pattieu, post-colonial uchrony
In his novel “Une vie qui se cabre”, Sylvain Pattieu, historian and writer, imagines a uchrony where the French Empire, in the aftermath of the Second World War, shifts its…
Nadia Yala Kisukidi, the art of dissociation
If you ever go shopping this fall, you will be able to stock up on essential things. Thanks to a single novel, where it is a question of joy, waking…
“They think that literature is another way of being left” – L’Express
In a column published by Release on January 18, more than 1,200 signatories “poets, artists, publishers, booksellers, librarians and cultural actors” condemned the appointment of Sylvain Tesson as godfather of…
Story of a quest for emancipation, from the pen of the Tanzanian Adam Shafi Adam
Political awareness and self-knowledge are the two main themes of the Indocile, a novel in Swahili which has just been translated into French. Its author Adam Shafi Adam, originally from…
“The Leap of Freedom”, by Patrice Romedenne
This is an iconic photo of the Cold War and the Berlin Wall taken on August 15, 1961. An East German soldier jumps over a barbed wire fence and crosses…
Michel Pastoureau, passionate and fascinating historian
Michel Pastoureau, born in 1947, historian of Western symbolism, is known worldwide for his work on the history of colors in the West. He has published in particular in Seuil,…
Julia Malye, desperate housewives in 18th century Louisiana
Julia Malye signs with “Louisiana”, the fascinating but dramatic historical story of three 18th century women who cross the Atlantic to marry French settlers living in Louisiana. A feminist novel…
How to share the pleasure of reading around you?
How to make children and adults want to read? What if the solution to reading better was to take up the pen? With Alexandre Jardin, author of Reading for Dummiespublished…
“Don Quixote” by Paul and Gaëtan Brizzi, the rebirth of a masterpiece
After “Inferno”, a stunning adaptation of Dante’s text, the Brizzi brothers are tackling another great literary classic in comics: “Don Quixote de la Mancha”. They magnify the text of Miguel…