Joseph's convalescence was drawing to a close. Deep in bed, he heard a familiar voice, not that of the previous maid, Agathe. It's her, it's Leila, his childhood sweetheart. Their reunion marks the beginning of a period of peace and reconciliation. Joseph now takes part in village life, working, eating and laughing with those who have perhaps become his own.
Launched in the late 2000s, the «Dictionnaire amoureux» collection covers a wide range of subjects. One of the latest is devoted to the Belle Epoque and the Années Folles, written by Benoît Duteurtre. Guaranteed to amaze.
Enarque, avocat de la liberté, militaire, écrivain. François Sureau a vécu mille vies. Elu à l’Académie française en 2020, le voilà immortel. Rencontre autour de son ouvrage Un an dans la forêt, qui s’intéresse à Blaise Cendrars, l’écrivain bourlingueur suisse.
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.
«Our fathers, our brothers, our friends: inside the heads of violent men». The title makes it clear that the authors are also nice guys and loved ones. An added bonus: Mathieu Palain encourages us to ask ourselves which link in the chain of violence we occupy.
Mertvecgorod, fictional city-state, turn of the millennium. Five teenagers on the bangs of society take to drugs and punk soundtracks on a daily basis to forget the doldrums in which they live. The murder of Valentina, a transvestite neighbor, will reshuffle the cards of their daily lives.
Joseph's convalescence was drawing to a close. Deep in bed, he heard a familiar voice, not that of the previous maid, Agathe. It's her, it's Leila, his childhood sweetheart. Their reunion marks the beginning of a period of peace and reconciliation. Joseph now takes part in village life, working, eating and laughing with those who have perhaps become his own.
With her poetic, impulsive and prevertiginous writing, Dunia Miralles signs «Le baiser d'Anubia» (Anubia's Kiss), an intimate book about personality disorders, transforming her individual story into a universal one.
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.
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