Tag: Literature
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…
the growing visibility of African letters
Literary Africa is on the rise. Its writers have garnered some of the great literary awards in the Western world this year, including the prestigious Nobel Prize for Literature which…
Yoram Leker, devil’s advocate
Bright and humorous voice, this is Yoram Leker. And above all, here is a lawyer who has frequented quite a few history books: the history of the Holocaust seen through…
Once upon a time … diversity in children’s literature
We all know, whether we are passionate about reading or not, the books that mark our lives sometimes play an essential role in our journeys, like a compass capable of…