Tag: Literature
Theatre: “Gulliver’s Travels” adapted by Valérie Lesort and Christian Hecq
Gulliver’s Travels, written at the beginning of the 18th century by the Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, has come down to us as a children’s tale. The largely amputated original text…
Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, the big bath challenge
Filmmaker Mahamat-Saleh Haroun is publishing a jubilant new novel freely inspired by the fate of Eric Moussambani, a young Guinean swimmer who marked the Sydney Olympic Games in 2000. We…
Stéphane Audeguy, the empire of metamorphoses
Stéphane Audeguy’s new novel strolls through a century of Japanese history. A kaleidoscope of intersecting women’s destinies, in a Japan torn between tradition and modernity. A young American bride who…
“Strive for digital sobriety” by Frédéric Bordage
Frédéric Bordage, the author of Strive for digital sobriety, offers us solutions that are easy to implement (not giving in to technological sirens, buying sustainable equipment, recycling, etc.) so that…
Diadié Dembélé, advocacy for equality and language sorority in Mali
Diadié Dembélé was born in Kodié, in western Mali. A graduate of the Master of literary creation from the University of Paris VIII, he works as an interpreter in an…
Mina Namous, in the life of a free woman in love in Algiers
Mina Namous, born in 1984 in Paris in an Algerian family, spent her childhood and adolescence in Algeria. A lawyer, she practiced in Algiers then in Paris. From 2010 to…
Laure Gouraige traces a life in black ink
In her new novel, Laure Gouraige confronts her heroine with the question of identity, origin and heritage, with the stigmatization of being reduced to a “black” person and all that…
A special literary start in France
No respite for booksellers after the holidays. Over 540 new novels land in January. A plethora of literary re-entry that breaks all records. There will be competition between star writers…
Bernard Quiriny, story of a baron a little perched
In his new unclassifiable novel, Bernard Quiriny paints a portrait full of fantasies of Baron Archibald of Handrax, a bearded giant living in his manor in the Allier, lover of…
“Annihilate”, the new novel by Michel Houellebecq is desired
Michel Houellebecq, the world star writer of contemporary French literature, publishes his eighth novel, “Anéantir” on January 7, with Flammarion editions. All the press has already echoed it for several…