An imaginary country town nestled among the Swiss hills is home to a tribe of people who do nothing like the others. This is the setting for L'habit fait le moine and other short stories, by one of the most widely read authors of the 19th century: Gottfried Keller.
Here it is, a novel unlike any other of the current literary season! «Everything That's Missing» is the tale of a man grappling with life's disillusions, apathy and the mundane. All with a witty phlegm.
Five years after the translation of his previous novel, Peter Stamm returned to the literary scene this spring. This was the occasion for an interview in Morges, in the orientalist setting of the authors' space at the festival Le Livre sur les quais.
, 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
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