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Summer Reading No. 8 - In absentia, by Jean-Louis Coatrieux

Posted by Anne-Laure Radas on

For this latest edition of our summer reading, we have chosen... an unclassifiable. One of those UFOs of literature, which refuse to join the traditional sections of our libraries. In absentia , by Jean-Louis Coatrieux, is in some way an imaginary (but not fictional) dialogue between the author and authors who have influenced him: Nazim Hikmet, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda. The common thread between these three personalities? Resistance, the rejection of the world as it is in favor of a world " as they wanted to create it, free, luminous, insolent". In absentia is therefore also a reflection on...

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Summer Reading – No. 2 – The Princess of Sant Julia, by Hugues Lafontaine

Posted by Anne-Laure Radas on

A week has passed, it's time to reveal the second title that we have put aside for the holidays! This week, it's a novel. A novel that smells of the sun, burning stone, pine-covered mountains, because it takes place in Andorra . A novel that is not light, because it is full of history : it is based on real events in Andorra during the Second World War, its networks of smugglers and resistance fighters. A novel despite everything filled with dreams and mysteries , starting with that of the Aztec princess who is said to have lived there and...

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