{"id":520234,"date":"2023-09-26T11:05:44","date_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:05:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/?p=520234"},"modified":"2023-09-26T11:05:47","modified_gmt":"2023-09-26T09:05:47","slug":"isabelle-cornaz-rts-moscow-first-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leregardlibre.com\/en\/literature\/isabelle-cornaz-rts-moscow-first-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Moscow kisses from Isabelle Cornaz"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her first book, the journalist from French-speaking Switzerland makes a poetic, dreamlike declaration of love to her beloved Moscow, which she had to leave when war broke out in Ukraine.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n

It's a small 80-page book with a red cover, as in the heyday of the Soviet Union. French-speaking journalist Isabelle Cornaz was a correspondent in Russia for Radio T\u00e9l\u00e9vision Suisse (RTS) for four years. She had to leave the capital, which she says she \u00abloved deeply\u00bb, and was unable to return because of the war in Ukraine. And yet, the memory remains. So it's a declaration of love in due form that she addresses the Russian megalopolis in her first book La Nuit au pas<\/em>, published at the end of August by Editions La Baconni\u00e8re.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is not a novel, but rather a collection of fragmentary memories and impressions, entangled by the passage of time. Almost like a dream, it combines journeys to the Russian Far North, childhood memories and summer storms on Moscow streets. \u00abThere comes a time when familiar places enter our dreams. They become haunting, untouchable\u00bb, says the young forty-something, who wonders: \u00abhow much attraction do you have to have for these fields, these houses, these skies, these street corners so that one day, they don't let you go?\u00bb<\/p>\n\n\n\n