Tag: Literature
Paris 2024: Olympics and literature, the right marriage
Among the many virtues of the Paris 2024 Olympics, let us note that of having given some good ideas to publishers. Yes, what a great idea to have asked a…
“Despite all my rage” by Jérémy Fel, the violent Cap without hope
For this new literary season, Jérémy Fel returns with a fourth addictive and terrifying punch novel which will, without a doubt, leave the reader completely stunned by so much terror.…
Dominique Celis, from survivors to the living
Does living again in Rwanda mean coming back to yourself? And since we are there, should we put an end to the Rwanda mausoleum? And finally, where can resurrection come…
Fabien Truong, the size of the origins
He is a sociologist who is comfortable in his shoes. A new generation sociologist who ties his shoelaces, either to scream into the microphone with his punk friends, or to…
At the origins of Algerian literature: five questions for Hervé Sanson
Hervé Sanson is a specialist in Maghreb literature. It recounts the conditions for the emergence of French-speaking Algerian literature in the 1950s, as the country plunged into a brutal war…
“The Mafia and the White House”, by Jean-François Gayraud
Have there been links between American presidents and the mafia? This is the question, delicate and little explored, posed by Jean-François Gayraud in his latest work. General Commissioner of the…
Eleanor Catton, ecological tragicomedy in New Zealand
Eleanor Catton is a New Zealand writer born in 1985 in Canada and then grew up near Christchurch in New Zealand. His first novel, “La Répétition”, appeared on numerous prize…
“The convoy” by Beata Umubyeyi-Mairesse, on the trail of its survival
With “The Convoy”, writer Beata Umubyeyi-Mairesse delivers the poignant investigative story of her rescue on June 18, 1994 during the Rwandan genocide. A striking testimony. The book begins with these…
Theatre: “Our life in Art”: a tribute to Stanislavski
1923: a festive evening with the actors of the Moscow Art Theater, directed by the director Constantin Stanislavski. Joys, songs, laughter, hopes, but also uncertainties about the future. With Hélène…
“The geometry of possibilities” by Edouard Jousselin, the world is a novel
The young writer Edouard Jousselin publishes a second daring novel with Rivages Editions entitled “ The geometry of possibilities “. A masterful fresco which retraces the last 30 years of…