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