Each month, we feature a column by one of the personalities who give us the pleasure of alternating between the two. In his column, writer Quentin Mouron explores a topical issue with his usual sharpness.
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?
Let's set the scene right away. The title is literary. Not literal. The fact remains that the novel «Volodia» - short for Vladimir - deals with the means of eliminating the statesman. Four scenarios are proposed. It's up to the reader to choose. Cathartic action par excellence.
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?
Joseph is up bright and early, preparing to see his grandparents again. As he makes his way through the village, he meets a few villagers who were once so hostile to him. They all show him respect and sympathy, and remember Marguerite and Aimé. His grandmother welcomes him as he would have liked to have been welcomed by the village, at first. They talk about words and books.
In «Faire paysan», Blaise Hofmann from the Vaud region sets out to understand the ever-widening gap between the urban population and farmers.
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?
With radically different constructions and horizons, two novels released this fall seize on memory to turn it into a hallucinatory expedition or a waking reverie. Departure for distended time.
Joseph is well and truly back with his family. Everything is going well for him. He works, loves and is loved. At the end of a harvest day, and after an evening of drinking, Joseph returns to Agathe's house where a surprise awaits him. It's Leila. She invites him to leave the village with her...
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