Literature
Anaïs Nin, on the sea of lies
One hundred and ninety pages of intense, authentic storytelling
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Mikhail Bulgakov: the man and the artist
At a time when debates are raging over the existence of a distinction between man and artist, an interest in Mikhail Bulgakov's «Theatrical Novel», published in 1937, does not seem out of season. In this work, the author recounts, almost autobiographically, with sarcasm and feigned naiveté, the epic process of writing, publishing and adapting his first novel into a play.
The wind in your body
With La Horde du Contrevent, a science-fiction novel published in 2004 by Editions de La Volte, Alain Damasio puts down on paper indelible vocables that a pair of eyes will suffice to engrave in the flesh. La Horde is first and foremost the story of twenty-three people trained from childhood to cross the land of their flat world from one end to the other to discover the origin and nine forms of the wind. It is also - and above all - a unique object and material experience for the reader.
Focus on Black African thought
The literature on Black African philosophy is mainly concerned with analyzing the extent to which it exists. This is a complex and endless debate. That's why we thought it would be more interesting to highlight a few typical elements of this thought. It's a way of cutting through the Gordian knot and getting to the heart of the matter: philosophy or not, what characterizes Black African thought, and what has it contributed to humanity?
That strange lady who liked clean toilets
A humorous critique of the American pseudo-elite.
Claude Calame's Greece: From the plague in Athens to the pandemic of 2020
CHRONICLE | Each month, find the column of one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of taking up the pen for Le Regard Libre on a rotating basis. Historian, anthropologist and Hellenist Claude Calame proposes a contemporary lesson from ancient Greece.
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