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...
As I immersed myself in Stéphanie Lugon's book, the sensations of my first encounter with Charles Gleyre's painting «Le coucher de Sappho» came to the surface. Sensations and a certain attraction. The story of a thunderbolt in the museum.
Humorist, novelist and filmmaker, Mourad Winter made a name for himself on Instagram, where his stories made (almost) everyone howl with laughter. Today, he publishes «Les Meufs c'est des mecs bien», with a tone as irreverent as ever. But at what price?
A la suite de la publication de son nouveau livre récemment primé, «Lettre à mon dictateur», rendez-vous a été donné à l’écrivain suisse Eugène pour une conversation à son sujet, placée sous le signe de la mémoire et de l’humour. Rencontre avec un drôle de conteur.
L'histoire a de tout temps été écrite par les hommes. A la veille d'une nouvelle journée de mobilisation féministe en Suisse, plongée dans un des livres qui veut redonner aux femmes leur juste place.
, First of all, the long wait before the death of a sick mother. Then, the thousands of kilometers traveled all over Russia with her ashes. A poetic autofiction, but bordering on exhibitionism. True and powerful, or just shocking?
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.
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