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Pascal Couchepin's reading: «An axe to the head».»
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Pascal Couchepin's reading: «An axe to the head».»

written by Pascal Couchepin

CHRONIQUE, Pascal Couchepin | Raphaël Gaillard is head of the psychiatry department of a major Parisian hospital and the University of Paris. He was recently a guest on France 5«s literary program »La Grande Librairie«. And what's more, he has roots in the Valais, in Saxon to be precise. The theme he tackles, after many others, but in a fresh way, is the relationship between madness and creativity. Hence the title of his book, taken from a phrase by Diderot: »Great artists have an axe to grind in their heads".

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The melancholy of the «true left»
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The melancholy of the «true left»

By Ivan Garcia · March 16, 2019
Faced with the failures of the twentieth century, the left has shifted ground. More concerned with the fate of minorities than workers, it disappointed. But from the ashes of that disappointment comes a strange feeling: melancholy. This is the key to the return of the «true left».