Every month, our literary critic puts a work through a kaleidoscope, collecting the images it projects and reconstructing their diffractions. Even if the flashes of genius turn out to be shards of glass.
In his column, former Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin shares a book that has made a lasting impression on him. This month, he comments on the latest...
Every month, our literary critic puts a work through a kaleidoscope, to collect the images it projects and...
While Rousseau's writings paved the way for a literature of intimate education, they also gave shape to the stereotypical vision of the preceptor that dominated the French literary landscape until Stendhal.
In an age of slogans and elusive attention spans, the short sentence is a must. They click, hit and sell. And yet, some spaces resist. In the meanders of literature, language catches its breath.
Every month, our literary critic puts a work through a kaleidoscope, collecting the images it projects and reconstructing their diffractions. Even if the flashes of genius turn out to be shards of glass.
Those who believe in Morand's black legend remember only his anti-Semitism, while those who are attached to his golden legend salute above all his cosmopolitanism. However, ignoring either of these two dimensions of his personality proves futile.
Literary dandyism, an elegant insurrection against the trivial, has found a figure in French-speaking Switzerland: Florian Eglin, a punchy aesthete.
Imagination is a fertile breeding ground from which the most diverse branches escape. Marie Mangez's and Benjamin Stock's novels, both of which came out at the start of the new literary season, deal with the slippage of fiction into our lives, with quite opposite follies.
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