An iconic “closed-door” play by Swiss author Friedrich Dürrenmatt, *La Panne* depicts a trial told in reverse, in which the defendant bears the burden of proving his innocence. A warning against the excesses of a justice system that sees itself as the guardian of righteousness
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.
In «The Blue Sisters», Coco Mellors tracks this very contemporary fear of losing one's footing with disarming honesty, in the wake of four sisters on the edge of themselves.
With «Uvaspina», Monica Acito grabs hold of literature with hands full of the sacred fire of blinded myths, to deliver a blistering novel in which Naples becomes the theater of carnal violence, carried by a harsh, vindictive language.
At the start of each new literary season, book awards become a must for readers. Banners in the window, covers in the media, sales on the rise... But are these distinctions in principle a guarantee of quality?
In Paris, where we met him at length in his childhood neighborhood, Romanticism specialist and literary historian Alain Vaillant reads two centuries of Western culture as the rise and fall of a civilization centered on the individual.
In «La Montre d'Hitler» (Hitler's Watch), Yves Azéroual and Christophe Barbier combine thriller and reflection on transmission, using a watch that once belonged to the Führer to explore how an era haunts the living.
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.
Pierre-Nicolas Marquès takes to the streets to offer strangers phrases that mend, and sows poetry in the digital world. The 2.0 artist talks about his creation and his transition to music with «Amour flingué».
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