Tag: Literature
“Mom, I’m not dead”
On December 15, the French government announced the creation of a ministerial mission on illegal international adoptions. For decades, many children have been adopted under unclear conditions in France, but…
Michel Houellebecq, the star of French letters, again victim of hacking
The literary community only talks about that. The new book by the sulphurous Michel Houellebecq, one of the most widely read French authors in the world, has been hacked! Annihilate…
Claire Berest, the art of trompe-l’oeil
After “Nothing is black”, her latest novel which was interested in the life of Frida Khalo, Claire Berest returns today with “Artifices”. An addicting thriller-like novel based on characters steeped…
(REDIFFUSION) – Emmanuel Lascoux and Homère, an “Odyssey” of translation?
“The language of Homer is untranslatable”, writes Emmanuel Lascoux, in the preface to his new translation of Homer’s Odyssey. Advertising How to keep the Hellenistic rhythm, the theatricality of the…
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr – In G major
His name is Mohamed Mbougar Sarr and he is a young author, Présence Africaine. Personally, I would say that he is an author who carries and who does not care…
“The New Sectarian Peril” by Jean-Loup Adénor and Timothée de Rauglaudre
The book France for this Sunday, December 19 is called The New Sectarian Peril, co-written by Jean-Loup Adénor and Timothée de Rauglaudre. The authors discuss in nuance and detail the…
Etel Adnan / Hommage – In G major
Etel Adnan was born in 1925, in Beirut, to a Greek mother and a Syrian father. Writer, poet and polyglot plastic artist, she wrote in French, English and Arabic ……
The first great Russian feminist with Hélène Carrère d’Encausse
Born in Paris in an exiled Russian family, French historian, specialist in Russia, Hélène Carrère d’Encausse has been a member of the French Academy since 1991, where she was the…
Sabine Dullin: “Putin is guided by the imperial past”
Thirty years ago, the USSR broke up, two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall and the break-up of the Communist bloc. An implosion that remains with some, such…
Mathematical game: Notre-Dame de Paris and the fourth dimension
A monument almost disappeared and the hearts of the French are touched. Money is pouring in to fix it to the point that some are shocked. Wouldn’t it be better…