As the soccer World Cup gets underway, the authors of «Esclaves de l'Homme-pétrole» look back at the scandals in Qatar. Numerous testimonials reveal the reasons why so many workers - male and female! - to come and build in the Gulf States.
The poetic Cyrille Bertrand, in his dreamy twenties, imagines a life of literature, voluptuousness and adventure. Instead, he's bounced from job to job, disillusionment after disillusionment. And he doesn't understand a thing about his self-righteous times.
Et si le monde nouveau était celui du cannibalisme? Mais attention, un cannibalisme sain, consentant, via des méthodes d’ablation chirurgicales...
After Joseph's attack, Pierre still hasn't returned to the village. Simeon, who brought the stranger's body home as if it were his own son, seems worried. Joseph, meanwhile, lies in a room where Leila keeps watch. She knows that her father had something to do with the death of her old flame.
Premier roman de l’auteure anglaise Coco Mellors, Cléopâtre et Frankenstein a paru cet automne en français, après avoir fait un...
When you think of the end of the world in literature, two things immediately spring to mind: Joël Dicker or the great dystopias. It's neither of these that we're going to discuss here. In the same way that fantasy and science fiction are intimately linked to the apocalyptic vision of humanity, so-called «white» literature is also increasingly taking up the subject. And if the world is being turned upside down, the two novels we're going to look at are also turning the reader upside down. Each in its own way.
It all starts with an existential crisis. How can one write when one is filled with doubt? When the future is uncertain? And when literature has...
Ce féru de Georges Simenon et Frédéric Dard n'a pas fini de faire parler de lui. Avec Mets de l'eau...
In a letter to the Romanian dictator, the author recounts his relationship with the shadow that hung over his life...