Alors que la société et les mœurs que peint François Mauriac dans son œuvre semblent avoir disparu depuis longtemps, sa manière d’écrire fait de lui un auteur étonnement actuel.
An imaginary country town nestled among the Swiss hills is home to a tribe of people who do nothing like the others. This is the setting for L'habit fait le moine and other short stories, by one of the most widely read authors of the 19th century: Gottfried Keller.
A cathedral book, rich in flashes of inspiration, the latest novel by 31-year-old Swiss author Romain Debluë is the pride and joy of publisher Michel Moret, who has published works by Jacques Chessex and Corinna Bille. It follows the arrival in Paris of a young Swiss student.
Here it is, a novel unlike any other of the current literary season! «Everything That's Missing» is the tale of a man grappling with life's disillusions, apathy and the mundane. All with a witty phlegm.
Five years after the translation of his previous novel, Peter Stamm returned to the literary scene this spring. This was the occasion for an interview in Morges, in the orientalist setting of the authors' space at the festival Le Livre sur les quais.
In a novel that takes the form of a detective story, French writer Lilia Hassaine leads the charge against a society that has made transparency an absolute virtue.
François Forestier unearths the blacklists of the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War. At the heart of his novel are politics and justice thugs, all in a style that doesn't take. But the idea was promising.
Sorting through the belongings of a deceased loved one is often part of the grieving process. Ludivine Ribeiro has taken the exercise a step further. She has published a book. A way for the Geneva-based author to recount a slice of life. Her own and that of her family. A gentle, therapeutic book.
Recounting the reconstruction of a loner in poor health against a backdrop of questions about adoption and identity. All in a hundred or so stylish, spicy pages. That was the challenge of this novel. Who could have doubted that the author would rise to it?
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