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.
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.
Every month, our literary critic puts a work through a kaleidoscope, to collect the images it projects and...
Ramuz, Rousseau and Hesse all share an interest in how the individual tries to live in a society where he sometimes feels like an outsider. An attempt to heroize these three great Swiss authors, who see nature as a source of authenticity.
Unlike Eugène Rambert or Maurice Chappaz, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz never ventured into the highlands. Faithful to an ancestral conception of the mountain as a place to be avoided, the Vaudois describes it in all its strangeness.
Literary dandyism, an elegant insurrection against the trivial, has found a figure in French-speaking Switzerland: Florian Eglin, a punchy aesthete.
With «Ce qu'il reste de tout ça», Fanny Desarzens paints a gentle, sensitive portrait of an ordinary family in the French-speaking part of Switzerland during the "Trente Glorieuses".
The latest novel by Swiss writer André Durussel, published in Le Regard Libre throughout 2024, continues and concludes.
Here's the sequel to the new novel by Swiss writer André Durussel, published in Le Regard Libre throughout 2024.
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