Tag: Literature
(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…
Iris Chang, the voice of the victims of the 1937 Nanjing massacre
Sino-American journalist and historian, Iris Chang in 1997 made a major contribution to the memory of the Sino-Japanese war (1937-1945) by publishing The Rape of Nanjing. This historic essay, which…
In the footsteps of Gustave Flaubert, two hundred years after his birth (Part 2)
In this bicentenary which celebrates the birth of Gustave Flaubert, second special program in Rouen with an interview with Yvan Leclerc, professor emeritus, in the birthplace of the author. Then,…
“Don’t stop running”, the story of Toumany Coulibaly, runner and thief at the same time
Thief, liar, manipulator, but above all a gifted athlete. Who is Toumany Coulibaly, champion of the lap? In Don’t stop running, Mathieu Palain paints the portrait of a kid born…