The Awakening by Kate Chopin: a story of female self-actualization back in the late 19th century.
The Awakening is a novel about a woman’s transformation. From an obedient, traditional wife and mother into a self-realized, sexually liberated and independent woman.
When first published in 1899, The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. […]
Demain j’arrête de Gilles Legardinier: Un succès surprise porté par plus de 1 300 000 lecteurs enthousiastes!
Comme tout le monde, Julie a fait beaucoup de trucs stupides.
Poussée par une inventivité débridée, à la fois intriguée et attirée par cet inconnu à côté duquel elle vit mais dont elle ignore tout. Julie va prendre des risques […]
La Dernière des Stanfield: Un roman mené de main de maître. Magnifique et addictif!
Loin des histoires d’amour où les sentiments couvent en attendant de pouvoir librement s’exprimer, le dernier roman de Marc Leyv, «La Dernière des Stanfield» est une intrigue familiale plutôt complexe, mais intéressante.
Marc Levy se lance dans la saga familiale
Eleanor-Rigby est une jeune femme […]
New Boy: a modern retelling of Othello set in a suburban schoolyard.
Arriving at his fifth school in as many years, a diplomat’s son, Osei Kokote, knows he needs an ally if he is to survive his first day. So he’s lucky to hit it off with Dee, the most popular girl in school. But one student […]
Men without Women by Murakami : «one of the most influential novelist of his generation».
‘I find writing novels a challenge, writing stories a joy. If writing novels is like planting a forest, then writing short stories is more like planting a garden.’
Across seven tales, Haruki Murakami brings his observation to bear on the lives of […]
Vous n’aurez pas ma haine, récit d’Antoine Leiris à la librairie Linguae.
Antoine Leiris a perdu sa femme, Hélène Muyal-Leiris, le 13 novembre 2015 au Bataclan. Accablé oar la perte, il n’a qu’une arme: sa plume. À l’image de la lueur d’espoir et de douceur que fut sa lettre «Vous n’aurez pas ma haine», pubbliée au […]
Honeydew by Edith Pearlman: one of the most essential short-story visionaries of our time.
The stories in «Honeydew» are unmistakably by Pearlman; whole lives in ten pages. They are minutely observant of people. Of their foibles and failings, but also of their moments of kindness and truth.
The characters are dazzling. Somalian women who have suffered circumcision, […]
Leaving the Atocha Station: Luminously original, like a comet from the future! by Ben Lerner.
Nothing is more American than running away to Europe, avoiding your countryfolk, pretending not to be American. Our narrator really hates the would-be expatriate intellectuals «who, when they spoke Spanish, exaggerated the peninsular lisp». And hates them mostly – as will […]
Togliamo il disturbo: saggio sulla libertà di non studiare di Paola Mastrocola
Ditemi se devo ancora insegnare queste cose o no. Forse, se i ragazzi non sanno più l’italiano, vuol dire che la scuola non ha più ritenuto che fosse il caso di insegnare l’italiano. Forse tutti in Italia (o meglio, in Europa) hanno deciso questo. […]
L’élégance du hérisson de Muriel Barbery: best-seller completement imprévu. Anatomie d’un roman dans l’air du temps, jouant par la caricature le peuple contre les élites. Bons sentiments assurés.
«L’élégance du hérisson» és la segona novel·la de l’escriptora Muriel Barbery. Va apareixer al 2006 i ràpidament fou l’èxit de la temporada amb gairebé un milió d’exemplars venuts. […]
