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For this fourth edition of our summer reading, we suggest you return to a more familiar, more comfortable style: the short story. Except that... these short stories are not comfortable at all. "Les leçons d'amour" draws us to the limits of what is bearable, suitable or acceptable, disorients us, disturbs us. The dream of a fantasized life, desires of all kinds, the uncontrollable part, are superimposed on images of reality, on its limits, to finally impose a kind of intermediate reality that only exists in the time and space of writing and that serves as a temporary refuge for the...

It's time for our weekly meeting! This week, we offer you exoticism in the very form of this new summer reading: poetry! The great forgotten, the one that most of us never think about when we are looking for our next book. And yet... we can see in it, like Albert Memmi , "the essence of literature" , because it is the tool for expressing emotion - which, beyond the plot, the characters, the places, is perhaps the most important. The emotion that the author expresses, the one that the reader feels. It is precisely a collection of poetry by...

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...

It's summer, professional life is slowing down, vacations are looming - if you're not already there -, the time is ideal to devour all the books that the hectic pace of the rest of the year has (perhaps) prevented you from reading! For all those who want to discover new authors, new books, we have searched our catalog for books that talk about travel, escape, encounters, books that take you away and make you dream... We will present you a new one every Monday throughout the summer . For a taste of vacation or to accompany a tanning session on...

Organized by the association L'île Lettrée, as part of the second day of L'Univers Carcel'art , this debate will be held on Saturday June 1 from 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m. at Pari's des Faubourgs ( access map ). François Lefort (author of "Justice! For the Honor of a Priest" , published by Chemins de tr@verse), will be invited alongside Aïssa Lacheb (author of "Scenes from Prison Life" published by Le Diable Vauvert). An inside look that promises to be very interesting as the reform of the penitentiary institution is being felt ever more cruelly; the FO union is calling...