Number two by David Foenkinos Gallimard, € 19.50, 242 p. The original idea, which is truly delightful, is announced in a few lines at the start of the book. In 1999, hundreds of children are auditioned to find the young actor who will play Harry Potter, the hero of JK Rowling. “In the end, there … Read more
The founder of the largest social enterprise in Europe confides in his latest book, My happiness is the others (1). In a more personal tone than in his previous books, Jean-Marc Borello, 64, also Deputy General Delegate of En Marche, retraces the journey that led him from a post of specialist educator for difficult-to-learn children. … Read more
The relics of Christ. A history of the sacred in the West de Nicolas Guyard Deer, 312 p., € 24 Evoking relics today calls for an indulgent smile or scathing irony. But sometimes also awakens the fascination for these marvelous objects which have crossed many eras and many places. Lecturer at the University of Montpellier, … Read more
Live in other worlds? by Anne Marie Reijnen and Christian Pian (eds.) Labor and Faith, 254 p., 19 € Man always sees high and further, to the confines of the galaxy and even beyond, to better understand the Universe but also with the secret hope of discovering other worlds and other intelligences. Theological reflection cannot … Read more
Algeria 1962. A popular history by Malika Rahal The Discovery, 424 p., 25 € Algeria 1962. The word “revolution” best sums up this pivotal year, marked by the Evian accords, the self-determination referendum, the proclamation of independence, the elections to the Algerian National Assembly and the establishment of the Algerian National Assembly. first government of … Read more
Dejima by Stéphane Audeguy Threshold, 286 p., € 18.50 There is the American Mabel, who finds herself widowed in Tokyo in 1946, when she spent her honeymoon in Kyoto in 1902. There is the hallucinating and bloody Kumiko. Finally, there is Alice, a cheeky French teacher on the move in the land of the rising … Read more
Monument National the Julia Deck Midnight Editions, 206 p., € 17 The “national monument” is Serge Langlois, the fictitious equivalent of a Delon or a Belmondo, the aged glory of French cinema around which the many characters of the novel revolve in his castle. Choosing for the title this emphatic cliché is well in the … Read more
Romans de Julian Barnes Edition presented by Vanessa Guignery, Translated from the English by Jean Guiloineau and Jean-Pierre Aoustin, Gallimard / Quarto, 1 242 p., 28 € In 1984, Flaubert’s Parrot upset the fashions and codes then governing romantic creation. The narrator of Julian Barnes, an old widowed doctor, embarked on a passionate search for … Read more