, Pierric Bailly once again explores the landscapes of his French Jura, with its solitudes, grumbling silences and amorous passions. A very good novel that chisels out the idleness of men in the face of the inescapable.
The new literary season is a bit like a packet of popcorn at the movies: everything looks wonderful at first glance, but once you've plunged your hand into the mass, there's nothing but hard kernels. So to avoid this, let's exhume a little gem published in 1987 in the United States.
From the quiet suburbs of Neuchâtel to popular uprisings in Paris, Colin Thibert takes us to the heart of the late 18th century, through the tribulations of an antihero as pushy as he is ingenuous. A thrilling read.
As I immersed myself in Stéphanie Lugon's book, the sensations of my first encounter with Charles Gleyre's painting «Le coucher de Sappho» came to the surface. Sensations and a certain attraction. The story of a thunderbolt in the museum.
A new novel by American author Joyce Maynard, «Where the Happy People Lived» tells the story of a mother and wife's journey, peppered with failures and renunciations, but also with calm and smiles. A story partly inspired by her own life. And, yes, it shook me.
After a breathtaking saga set in the wake of the two world wars, Pierre Lemaitre takes us on a voyage to the Thirty Glorious. And if the era is different, the novelistic fervor remains the same. Heading for the
Every time I hear the word «wokism», it makes me hungry. Everyone puts their imagination to it and puts what they feel like in it, according to the inspiration of the moment.
Sur la place Pury, à Neuchâtel, il y a désormais deux statues du même David de Pury: l’une érigée en 1855, l’autre en 2022. Cette dernière répond aux critiques récentes autour de la mémoire de l’homme d’affaires ayant fait fortune grâce à l’esclavage. Judicieux!
With radically different constructions and horizons, two novels released this fall seize on memory to turn it into a hallucinatory expedition or a waking reverie. Departure for distended time.
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