Published on : 14/01/2022 – 00:10 Gulliver’s Travels, written in the early 18th century by Anglo-Irish author Jonathan Swift, have come down to us like a children’s tale. The original text, largely amputated, was however a summit of political and social satire. At the Théâtre de l’Athénée in Paris, the duo Valérie Lesort and Christian … Read more
Being a woman is a collection of literary, feminist and political essays. It brings together two essays by Virginia Woolf, “Women and fiction” and “Professions for women”. The two texts of the English writer are accompanied by a preface, “What does it mean to be a woman?” », Prepared by the translator of the collection, … Read more
IRENE HDEZ. CANDLE Updated Saturday, January 8, 2022 – 11:28 PHOTO: JAVIER BARBANCHO Newspaper library Read all the interviews on the back cover Miguel Fortea. Burgos, 1965 Writer and editor. His crime novel Of debts and dead, starring detective Dalmau and set at the end of the Spanish civil war, marks the birth of a … Read more
Bruno Pardo PortoFOLLOW, CONTINUE Updated:08/01/2022 00:50h Keep Related news The Nobel Prize for Literature has nothing to do with politics, but Pablo Neruda almost ran out of the 1971 medal for his “hymns to Stalin.” The news, which has just come to light, is the latest revelation in the most uncomfortable tradition of the Swedish academy: … Read more
“To annihilate”, the eighth novel by Michel Houellebecq, arrived on the shelves on Friday and seems set to get off to a flying start after having already aroused a myriad of comments and criticisms, often laudatory, sometimes acerbic. This long fiction (736 pages) anticipates the years 2026 and 2027 when “France [est] in decline “but … Read more
Published on : 07/01/2022 – 12:25Modified : 07/01/2022 – 12:27 Mina Namous, born in 1984 in Paris in an Algerian family, spent her childhood and adolescence in Algeria. A lawyer, she practiced in Algiers then in Paris. From 2010 to 2014, she published highly regarded columns on the blog “Youngviealgeroise ». She has just published … Read more
Updated Friday, January 7, 2022 – 02:10 Return to Alcsser From TV to theater The agents of the Scientific Police freak out in color. The footprint found in a gas station in Madrid takes them not to a person, but to the collective imagination of Spain, to the most absolute incarnation of evil: it belongs … Read more
Published on : 06/01/2022 – 18:51 No respite for booksellers after the holidays. Over 540 new novels land in January. A plethora of literary re-entry that breaks all records. There will be competition between star writers such as, for example, Leila Slimani and Michel Houellebecq with his novel “To destroy”, printed in 300,000 copies. Large … Read more