Julia, the extension of Orwell’s 1984: “We always say that it is others who hate and that therefore they deserve to be hated.”
The first big difference between 1984 j Juliathe sequel to the novel by George Orwell what the American wrote Sandra Newman (already published in Spain by Destino), it is 1984 It’s a claustrophobic story with very few characters and very few locations Julia It includes a thousand details and a very extensive list. There are […]
“A ‘multi-orgasm’ stop has to be the best death in the world, don’t you think?”
Li hauria agradat treballar de portera d’un edifici? Ha, ha, no m’hi acabo de veure, els oficis de les protagonistes de les meves novel·les no són fàcils… puta, espia, violoncel·lista, dida, portera. M’adono que els hi estic complicant la vida. Les bicicletes són un perill, o això són manies de la Gracieta? Com tot. Ben […]
Rodney Saint-Éloi, Haitian poet: “Leaving the provinces to go into the world”
The Paris Book Festival opens its doors in the French capital this Friday, April 12, until Sunday. The festival is considered the literary event of spring and expects 100,000 visitors over three days. This year Quebec is the festival’s guest of honor. 42 authors and 77 publishers are represented in Paris. One of these houses […]
The Quebec thriller with André Marois
André Marois was born in France and has lived in Quebec since 1992. He is the author of numerous dark novels for young people and adults, including “Bienvenue à Meurtreville” (2016) and “Irrécupérables” (2021). He has just published “La Sainte-Paix” on Héliotrope. He is one of the guests of the Quebec delegation in the spotlight […]
Literature: “Kaddour”, the portrait of a father by Rachida Brakni
For her first novel, director and actress Rachida Brakni paints a portrait of her father Kaddour, who died in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic, after a difficult childhood in Algeria and a busy life in France… Rachid Brakni © Dorian Fool With Rachid Brakni, actress and director. His first novel Kaddour was published by […]
“Whore”: Dominique Lagoorgette examines the history of a word and a stigma
The term “whore” is omnipresent in everyday language: sometimes a misogynistic or sexist insult, sometimes a misused term to provoke shame, sometimes an interjection “Whore!” (which in the mouths of some speakers almost serves as a substitute for a comma!) But what is the history of this word? This linguistic study by Dominique Lagoorgette decodes […]
The actor was sentenced to a year-long program about domestic violence
par Le Figaro with – Published yesterday at 5:13 p.m, To update yesterday at 9:00 p.m Jonathan Majors arrives in court on Monday, April 8, 2024 in Manhattan, New York. DAVID DEE DELGADO / – After being kicked out of the Marvel Universe in December after being convicted of assaulting a former girlfriend, the actor […]
The Shroud of the Rwandan Absentees with Dorcy Rugamba
Jesus said it long before Dorcy Rugamba wrote it: I have not come to bring you peace, but the sword. I have come to separate the son from his father. It is difficult to return to the crime scene where father, mother, brothers and sisters disappeared within three quarters of an hour on April 7th. […]
The Essential Maryse Condé Writing Paths
Maryse Condé, who disappeared on the night of April 1st and 2nd, was a great voice in French and Francophone literature. With around thirty novels and essays, she has contributed to inscribing the thoughts and concerns of the global south in the French-speaking world. A review of the work and favorite themes of a sacred […]
Izabela Wagner, author of a biography of the thinker Zigmunt Bauman
Pierre-Édouard Deldique welcomes in Ideas: Izabela Wagner, author of a biography of the thinker Zigmunt Bauman and the introduction to “ My life in fragments », published by Premier Parallèle. Who was Zigmunt Bauman? Zygmunt Bauman was born in 1925 and died in 2017. He was Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Leeds. […]