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 indifferent.
Founder of the cultural magazine Espaces (1975-2000), writer André Durussel looks back on the thirty-year existence of the Alliance culturelle romande. The story illustrates that «cultural magazines, like civilizations, are mortal».
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A tireless traveler, the Austrian writer marveled at the plurality of cultures. Even at the dawn of the 20th century, he was prophetically fearful of their standardization.
On the occasion of a diary's tenth anniversary, there's nothing unjustified about delving into Stefan Zweig's work. A witness to his times, Zweig sailed against the tide during the First World War, before being forced into exile in the 1930s until his death in Brazil in 1942; he never gave in to the diktat of mainstream thought at a time when his pacifism was tantamount to treachery; he loved Switzerland, from Geneva to Zurich, a haven for free spirits in wartime; he was passionate about «what is universally human in man», while refusing to fall into abstract universalism. Yes, Stefan Zweig, a brilliant and passionate writer, is a model for all those who want to know more.
Let's end 2023 with a bang, let's end it with a book! Instead of the traditional confetti and cotillions of New Year's Eve, the editors of Regard Libre have prepared a firework display of five books, with their best reads of the year.
Horrified by the follies of the 20th century and a prisoner of his melancholic nature, Stefan Zweig was subject to intense inner struggles, which haunted his life and sublimated his work.
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At the dawn of the 20th century, faced with the spectre of the return of war, Stefan Zweig threw all his energies into a losing battle: trying to restore Europe's sense of unity.
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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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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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The Cinématographe in Lausanne screened a restored version of the famous «Stalker» on Tuesday. Let's take a look back at Andrei Tarkovski's film, a feature-length film full of mysticism and masterful imagery.
Once again this year, our critics have covered some of the cinema news in cinemas and on platforms. Here are the creations discovered in 2022 that, in one way or another, didn't leave us unmoved.
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