In his only novel, published posthumously in 1976, Fritz Zorn stabs at the Swiss bourgeois society that killed him. A work about two converging cancers: his own and conformism. This important book received a new French translation this year.
After the first volume, «The City in Flames», Don Winslow returns this year with «The City of Dreams», a long journey inspired this time by Virgil's «Aeneid». Between wanderings and realizations, what is the value of this continuation of Danny Ryan's adventures?
Elle avait fait sensation en publiant son premier roman chez Gallimard à seulement 25 ans. Rencontre avec la Valaisanne Céline...
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
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
Joseph is up bright and early, preparing to see his grandparents again. As he makes his way through the village, he meets a few villagers who were once so hostile to him. They all show him respect and sympathy, and remember Marguerite and Aimé. His grandmother welcomes him as he would have liked to have been welcomed by the village, at first. They talk about words and books.
Consputed in his native country, praised in the French-speaking world, Bret Easton Ellis returns at the start of this year with a new novel, his seventh. No surprises here: it's still about disillusioned youth, violence, drugs and bourgeois boredom. A revival, really?
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