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Do you want to know if your PC’s SSD or hard drive is delivering the performance promised by its manufacturer? Test it with free tools that will accurately measure the…
Francophone book meetings in Kigali: writing as reparation
Yolande Mukagasana and Dorcy Rugamba lost their families during the Genocide perpetrated against the Tutsis in Rwanda in 1994. Writing to testify and survive has since become essential for the…
Yolande Mukagasana: “Writing has served me as therapy”
She is one of fifteen authors invited to the Rencontres du livre francophone at the French Cultural Institute in Kigali, Rwanda. Yolande Mukagasana, whose first job is a nurse, began…
Ervé, celestial tramp, life in the street, writing in the skin
Ervé lives on the street. And this inhabits it. He drags with him the burden of a bad childhood and between anger, sadness and melancholy, he writes, among others on…
At the source of writing with Marie-Hélène Lafon
/ Podcasts / In person(s) ” The source, it flows, it’s open, it’s fluid, it’s inexhaustible, it doesn’t sink into opaque and definitively unexplored zones. The older I get, the…
Literature: writing or life, according to Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (2/2)
Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo is Madagascar’s greatest poet. In this second part of the chronicle “Writing paths” devoted to the biography of this writer and poet published by the researcher Claire Riffard,…
Erik Orsenna: “When writing about Bolloré, I expect everything, and I will respond”
Retirement, what retirement ? At 75, Erik Orsenna smiles behind his white mustache, he who combines the missions (ambassador of the Institut Pasteur, president of an international association for the…
Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba, writing and fighting before the planet burns
In 2013, Gabrielle Filteau-Chiba left her job, her home and her family in Montreal, and settled in a wooden cabin in the Kamouraska region of Quebec. She spent three years…
Literature: “Mecano” by Mattia Filice, the art of writing the train
/ Podcasts / In person(s) Mattia Filice’s novel marries the railway rhythm and landscape, transmutes the industrial universe of the train, machines and stations into romantic prowess, in a diverted…
Inclusive writing, cancel culture… How to respond to your woke child
Banal story of a day spent on the benches of the university. On the menu: “zoopoetics” and “eco-literature” criticism of “Western, white, heterosexual and patriarchal” literature… Faced with the interest…