Few people anticipated the outbreak of war in the Ukraine, partly because it has characteristics that evoke a war that should have happened forty years ago. The novel «Tempête rouge» (Red Storm), published in 1986, proved to be just such a visionary work.
Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of alternating between the two. Current affairs, history, politics and philosophy: former Federal Councillor Pascal Couchepin's readings.
L'auteur genevois Michaël Perruchoud a choisi la guerre en Tchétchénie comme toile de fond de son nouveau roman. Dans ce récit, il s’interroge sur les compromis que chacun est prêt à faire pour survivre.
Les deux œuvres majeures de Karl Kraus attendirent 2005 pour être traduites en français. Il est vrai qu’un certain nombre d’universitaires s’étaient fait fort de le cantonner dans le cercle restreint des colloques, ne se privant au demeurant pas de lui reprocher, encore et toujours, son prétendu antisémitisme et sa défense de Dollfuss, histoire de le rendre infréquentable, donc illisible.
Rarely has a state lie had such dramatic consequences. In 2003, the Bush administration presented false evidence of Iraq's possession of weapons of mass destruction, before invading the country and getting bogged down in a bloody war.
In this post, Swiss writer André Durussel delves into Péguy's writings, which are furiously reminiscent of the present. This reading also leads him to other thoughts.
For almost a year now, Russian soldiers have been fighting in Ukraine in a war whose rationality escapes most of the world. On the Ukrainian side, the reasons for fighting are almost self-evident, a question of survival. In the Russian ranks, the question arises.
To mark the publication of his book Le déclin d'un monde, Jean-Baptiste Noé talks to us about the end of the West's dream of shaping the world in its own image. And he even dares to rejoice.
Russian-Ukrainian, former USSR diplomat under Brezhnev and Gorbachev, and author of an impressive literary work, Vladimir Fedorovsky gives Le Regard Libre his views on the conflict in Ukraine and its political and geopolitical consequences.
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