“Everyone knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world,” writes Albert Camus in his novel The Plague (La Peste). “Yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky. There have been as many plagues as wars in history; yet plagues and wars always take people by surprise.” Albert Camus never made the...
Read MoreSaint-Exupéry’s Creative Spirit: The Craft of living
Anxiety about the future haunts the tales of . When the pilot in his plane (Vol de Nuit) feels the anguish of never landing again because he has lost his way, because he has drifted away, because now he sees nothing and understands that he lives his last minutes before his engine runs out of fuel that will hurl him into the sea, he also experiences the...
Read MoreFrançoise Mallet-Joris: a long literary career
The author of L’Empire Céleste and a member of l’Académie Goncourt, Françoise Mallet-Joris died on Saturday, August 13 2016. The sad news of her death was announced by Pierre Assouline, writer and journalist, who succeeded Françoise Mallet-Joris on the Goncourt jury after her resignation in 2011 for health reasons. What Pierre Assouline said about...
Read MoreBenoîte Groult – Portrait of a Rebel
The French feminist, novelist and author Benoîte Groult died on Monday 20 June 2016 in Hyères, southeastern France where she lived. The author’s daughter Blandine Caunes said, “She died in her sleep as she wanted, without suffering”, The author of Ainsi soit-elle was 96. The figure of Moïra, which was dear to Benoîte Groult, embodies...
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- Benoite Groult-pencil sketch
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- Manohar Malgonkar
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