We won’t complain about it, finally about the movement! Yes, things are moving along in our charts this week from January 8 to 14 with 8 new entries in the essays category and 7 in the fiction category. For once, let’s focus mainly on the best-selling essays and documents. Primus inter pares, emerges the essayist Emmanuel Todd, who signs, with Baptiste Touverey The Defeat of the West (Gallimard). In this work which offers us a geostrategic world tour of the main powers, Emmanuel Todd announces the end of a West and the triumph of Putin’s Russia. Suffice to say that from one press title to another, the author is not unanimous.
The philosopher Alain Finkielkraut also reflects on the progress of the world, but by broadening his focus to love, death, Europe, humor, politics, or even France, all in placing itself under the patronage of Arendt, Kundera, Levinas, Tocqueville, etc. Her Pearl Fisheralso published by Gallimard, once again takes 3rd place.
More surprising, alongside these two laureates, is the emergence of the forensic doctor Philippe Boxho, director of the Forensic Institute of the University of Liège, with two books published some time ago – Thus Interviews with a corpse A forensic doctor makes the dead speak (Kennes), published on June 14, 2023, takes 5th place, while The dead speak, dating from June 2022, infiltrates 7th place! In the latter, the doctor recounts a series of cases he had to deal with, between disappearances and suicides. Same process for his most recent book, which this time is devoted to suspicious deaths. So many cases which, one imagines, could give rise to so many episodes of a television series. At least that’s what we sense when we watch the interviews with this doctor who looks like a young man on YouTube, videos which have more than 4 million views…
The “revelations” of Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut
Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut, she had the right to honors from multiple media, from Europe 1 to CNews via Do not touch My TV ! It is true that with A sign from you. His soul guides my steps (Guy Trédaniel), Miss France 2017 and widow of Jean-Pierre Pernaut (who sends her signs) delivers “revelations” that sensational shows are fond of – in this case, Nathalie Marquay-Pernaut considers that the death of presenter could be linked to taking a 3rd dose of Covid vaccine while continuing radiotherapy treatment for his lung cancer. We will also note in this ranking of best sellers the entries of Christophe André (Value yourself and forget yourselfOdile Jacob), by Nathan Devers (Thinking against yourselfAlbin Michel) and Julie Grand (His life for mineArtège).
On the fiction side, there are also many movements, with the arrivals of Sarah Rivens (HLab), Sylvain Tesson (Equateurs), Michel Bussi (Les Presses de la Cité), Cécile Coulon (L’Iconoclaste), Joyce Kitten (Hugo Romans) , Marion Fayolle (Gallimard) and Romain Puértolas (Albin Michel). We’ll talk to you more about it next week…
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