The heroine of «Miettes» (Crumbs) travels through life as one travels through a country that never awaits. Between factories, inherited debts and fading loves, Lukas Bärfuss tells the story of an existence that moves forward uncovered, at the cost of everything that should stand.
In «The Blue Sisters», Coco Mellors tracks this very contemporary fear of losing one's footing with disarming honesty, in the wake of four sisters on the edge of themselves.
With «Uvaspina», Monica Acito grabs hold of literature with hands full of the sacred fire of blinded myths, to deliver a blistering novel in which Naples becomes the theater of carnal violence, carried by a harsh, vindictive language.
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.
Jean-Claude Kaufmann, Samuel Fitoussi, Mourad Winter and the duo formed by Peggy Sastre and Leonardo Orlando have signed works published or reissued this year that have not left the Regard Libre team indifferent.
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...
It's no surprise that literary critics devour tons of books. However, in this chronicle, the one who devours the object of his work is not him, but a modest, intrepid employee of a car junkyard.
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