Literature

Marco Martella, budding writer

By Quentin Perissinotto · 12 June 2025

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.

Literature

Pascal Couchepin has read «Prisoner of the Scarlet Dream».»

By Pascal Couchepin · May 28, 2025

In his column, the former Federal Councillor shares a book that has left a lasting impression on him. This month, he comments on Andrei Makine's latest novel.

Literature

«Fourth Wing», when literature goes sour

By Quentin Perissinotto · May 14, 2025

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.

Literature

Paul Morand, itinerary of a cosmopolitan anti-Semite

By Antoine Lévêque · 02 May 2025

Those who believe in Morand's black legend remember only his anti-Semitism, while those who are attached to his golden legend salute above all his cosmopolitanism. However, ignoring either of these two dimensions of his personality proves futile.

Literature

Sang Young Park, the ideal emotion

By Quentin Perissinotto · 20 April 2025

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.

Literature

Ramuz, a contemplative against mountaineering

By Benjamin Mercerat · 11 April 2025

Unlike Eugène Rambert or Maurice Chappaz, Charles Ferdinand Ramuz never ventured into the highlands. Faithful to an ancestral conception of the mountain as a place to be avoided, the Vaudois describes it in all its strangeness.

Literature

The Alpine landscape: an Eden in the heart of Europe

By Claude Reichler · 04 April 2025

In the 18th century, the Alps ceased to be a mere obstacle or backdrop to become a veritable European myth. According to Professor Claude Reichler, literature provided the basis for this rediscovery, in which the mountains became a refuge from modern upheavals.

Literature

Florian Eglin, dandyism as the art of refining violence

By Quentin Perissinotto · March 26, 2025

Literary dandyism, an elegant insurrection against the trivial, has found a figure in French-speaking Switzerland: Florian Eglin, a punchy aesthete.

Literature

Six walks to discover Albert Cohen's Geneva

By Sandrine Rovere · March 21, 2025

The links between the Franco-Swiss writer and his adopted city have always been complex. A new book, however, recalls the important role played by the city of Calvin in the life of the author of «Belle du Seigneur».