“My utopia: that Europe is finally popular”
Author adulated, Laurent Gaudy traces the European adventure, from 1848 to today, in a fervent poem, which could mark the Avignon Festival in July. Words of a writer who has breath and convictions
Blake and Mortimer: the mystery of the inverted pyramid
Ex-filtrated from the “obscure cities”, Francois Christen reinvents the characters of Jacobs in “The Last Pharaoh”. Graphically splendid, this highly anticipated spin-off panache science and fantasy, links Brussels to ancient Egypt and arises as a masterpiece
Nicolas Sarky justifies his passions
In his book Memories just published, the former French president is first and foremost a man of emotions, right in friendship and loyalty. Historians and observers will appreciate
What do the eyes of cows (and elephants) tell us?
Two books to better see the society of humans.
10 polar to shudder this summer
From Havana to London 1920 passing by a Russian Little Negroes, our suggestions of black fictions for sunny days
Francois Delude, the art of variation
The Waldensian publishes a story about the life of Lazarus and a collection of poems inspired by a visit to Mount At-hos, two quests of the same secular spirituality. Meeting at his home in Rivas, on the banks of Lake Geneva, in his “cell” of writing, surrounded by the books he cherishes.
Claire Mussed tells stories of girls, from fusion to split
Claire Mussed likes relationships that unite girls, between alliance and distrust. The American novelist reveals this alchemy in “The Girl who burns”, released in pocket, and “Before the upheaval of the world”
Mohamed Has hem: “We will never stop dreaming of freedom”
A great figure in the Egyptian cultural world, the first publisher of “The Yacoubian Building”, Alaa AL-Aswan’s bestseller, Mohamed Has hem is in Switzerland where he inaugurates the residency program “Writers in danger” at Chateau de Lavigny.
The works and days of Peter Nádas
When the country life leads the author of “Parallel Histories” on the paths of memory
“Getting out of the shadows”: the death of a pilot told by his daughter
Both quest and investigation, “Out of the shadows” says “the enormous presence” of a father disappeared in the head of a child, until the end of a beautiful story.
The spatial reconquest, between dreams and mirages
When NASA or Jeff Bozos make plans to (re) storm the space, everyone is (re) fantasizing. But this fascination with the infinitely great goes back a long way, as evidenced by “Roland Furies”, an epic poem of the sixteenth century.
Long live the heat wave! Books for children and teens
To devour and reread at the beach or in the parks, our selection of proposals for a summer full of fiction for juniors
The heat wave will not kill lovers of reading. For the beach, the terrace, even the bed of moss at the foot of a tree, here are twenty novels or stories for the summer.
Jean-Marc Rosette, the comic book in solitary wolf
Incurable nature lover, the French designer offers us a work as philosophical in his message as severe for humanity that degrades. New demo with two master books.
The forty that make the Jurua shine in Switzerland and in the world
On the occasion of the festivities for the 40th anniversary of the Jurua, Marie-Hélène Miauton brings together in a book the portraits of so many talents from this canton.
These cities left to me by writers
There are metropolises, towns that exist only in books and haunt you like dreams.
Are political parties a necessary evil for our democracies?
The last European elections saw the political landscape crumble. Traditional parties have paid the price, reviving reflection on their usefulness. In 1940 already, the philosopher Simone Weil called for their overtaking
Alicia Jimenez Bartlett: “My thrillers are feminist but not against men”
With the very funny Petra Delicado, Alicia Jimenez Bartlett created in the 1990’s the first character of inspector in the world of European crime. The Barcelona actress was the guest of the Polar Workshops “The Time” – Jan Michalski Foundation.
The son of a master butcher, the Bernese writer has fled a destiny all traced. On the occasion of the reissue of “La V ache”, his flagship work, he evokes his atypical career and his attachment to languages.
