Bleu Calypso, a whodunit written and set in a cabin south of Montpellier, is a singular blend of delightful descriptions and twists and turns. Blending wild life and dynamic investigation, it follows Niels, a fisherman, as he plunges deep into the investigation of a series of murders. A little in spite of himself, and a little in spite of his character's lack of subtlety.
Le journaliste suisse Jacques Pilet a sorti le mois dernier son deuxième roman aux Editions de l'Aire, Hôtel Belvédère. A sa lecture, nous nous plongeons dans la Suisse de 1914. Au sein d’une Europe en feu, un jeune fils de paysan veveysan, Jules, qui découvre l'amour avec une étudiante russe et décide de partir en Afrique. Un récit prenant, qui nous parle de l'Histoire tragique au moyen d'une histoire sympathique.
Literature and photography have often joined forces to create hybrid works. From Belgian writer Georges Rodenbach's famous Bruges-la-Morte to Roland Barthes' La Chambre claire, photographs have often accompanied texts to illustrate them or provide alternative readings. Today, Le Regard Libre invites you to dive into C'est la lutte finale, a photo book about the nineteenth Fête cantonale genevoise de lutte, to familiarize yourself with the sport through words and images.
French TV presenter Elisabeth Quin, who is also a writer, has dedicated her latest book, published in early 2019, to a hell she herself is going through: that of losing her sight. Extremely sensitive, this gem of a book has above all one great virtue: that of the direct truth of sensations.
Without fear or reproach, Jean-Michel Olivier paints thirteen subjective portraits of personalities who are now ghosts. Marc Jurt, René Feurer, Simone...
Twenty-one-year-old Mélanie and her parents have decided to commit assisted suicide together, following Mr.'s cancer and Mrs.'s inability to continue living without him. With Radio Nostalgie playing in the Lausanne tee-room where she works as a waitress, Mélanie tries to mourn. She's trying - which is no mean feat. Everything now refers to her as dead or undead. The city is populated by spirits, the same ones that the young girl she used to be used to ward off in her nights. She begins a relationship with a young man, David, who in a way serves as her mirror and healer.
This novel makes great use of parody and the grotesque, magnifying the stereotypes and clichés that abound in our collective imagination.
After a fall, thirty-nine-year-old Alice Love is left with amnesia: she has forgotten the last ten years of her life. Mother of three and in the process of divorce, she wakes up convinced that she's a pregnant bride. Her life, so different, doesn't suit her: her diary overflows on all sides, and she finds no pleasure in the activities that have become her daily routine.
Metin Arditi's latest novel, Carnaval noir, was released in August 2018 by Editions Grasset. Telling a suspenseful tale of the eternal return of human folly, it can be read at any time as a warning. And it could well be that our era is not immune to some infernal carnival.
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