Tag: Literature
Solenn Bardet, white woman, red woman
Solenn Bardet is officially known to be a geographer, ethnographer, documentarian, but in reality she comes from countless dreams (as Ariane Mnouchkine would say). Dreams born, lying on a carpet,…
Homage to Henri Lopes – In G major
Born in Léopolville in 1937, died on November 2, 2023, Henri Lopes was an emblematic political figure since independence to the present day (Prime Minister, several times minister, deputy director…
Utopia according to the Sierra Leonean novelist Ishmaël Beah [Rediffusion]
Former child soldier, Sierra Leonean Ishmaël Beah made himself known by publishing The path traveled, a poignant autobiographical account of the Civil War, its darkness and its brutality. He is…
Sylvain Prudhomme, and the child emerges from the mist
Sylvain Prudhomme delivers a sensitive novel which leads a forty-year-old writer to bring back memories in a quest for intimate truth. A novel which attempts to find “M”, an initial…
Blaise Ndala, portrait of a writer between Africa, America and Europe
Blaise Ndala, born in 1972 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, studied law in Belgium before settling in Canada in 2007. He published two acclaimed novels there, “I will dance…
“Frénésies” by Stéphanie Vovor, the incandescent poetry of a generation
“Frénésies” is the effervescent title of the first collection of poetry by poet Stéphanie Vovor, member of the Krachoir and Poétesses Gang collectives. A free poetic story, published by Editions…
Fatou Diome, freedom of writing
“We write because we couldn’t live without it.” It is with these words, in her latest novel, that Fatou Diome opens up about her passion for writing. (Rebroadcast from 09/07/2023)…
50 years ago, “The Gulag Archipelago”, Solzhenitsyn’s fundamental book, shook the world
On December 28, 1973, appeared in Paris The Gulag Archipelago by Alexander Solzhenitsyn, a book that would cause a global cataclysm. The work, prepared in the greatest secrecy, transmitted clandestinely…
Visible and invisible worlds, tales from the Amazon by Pierre-Olivier Bannwarth
“Stories, even tales, are made to weave a relationship with the environment around us. From the moment I know the story of the tree, the plant, the flower, the insect…
Arthur Dreyfus, a new novel which takes its destiny into its own hands
His last novel was entitled “Sexual Diary of a Boy Today”, and it is with another diary that Arthur Dreyfus returns today. A diary that dabbles in storytelling in a…