Amour

Every month, our literary critic puts a work through a kaleidoscope, collecting the images it projects and rendering their diffractions. Even if the flashes of light...

A cathedral book, rich in flashes of inspiration, the latest novel by 31-year-old Swiss author Romain Debluë is the pride and joy of publisher Michel Moret, who has published works by Jacques Chessex and Corinna Bille. It follows the arrival in Paris of a young Swiss student.

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.

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.

Humorist, novelist and filmmaker, Mourad Winter made a name for himself on Instagram, where his stories made (almost) everyone howl with laughter. Today, he publishes «Les Meufs c'est des mecs bien», with a tone as irreverent as ever. But at what price?

After Le dernier en été en ville, a cult novel by Italian author Gianfranco Calligarich published in the 70s and translated into French in the 2020s, here's another...

A first novel of remarkable virtuosity.

A long way from personal development