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The “Ambiguities” of Irène Némirovsky

About : A. Kershaw, Before Auschwitz. Irène Némirovsky and the Cultural Landscape of Inter-war France, Routledge.

by Olivier Philipponnat & translated by Susannah Dale, 18 April

After being readmitted to French literary heritage following the international success of Suite française (2004), Irène Némirovsky’s work provides a unique insight into the intellectual landscape of (...)

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The Fascination for India

About: Roland Lardinois, Scholars and Prophets. Sociology of India from France in the 19^th and 20^th centuries, New Delhi, Social Science Press.

by Jules Naudet & translated by Rohini Rangachari, 11 March

Since the 18th century, India has been portrayed in contradictory ways. While scholarly knowledge is based on the philological study of texts, literary Orientalism expresses its fascination for a (...)

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Essays

The Suspension of Meaning

An Interview with Jean Starobinski

by Sarah Al-Matary & translated by Susannah Dale, 28 January

Creating connections has been the aim of Jean Starobinski’s work for more than half a century. His body of work is large and shifting, created in response to life, lying somewhere between the (...)

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Dossiers

The Power of Images

by Cristelle Terroni, 30 July 2012

How do images shape our worldview ? What do their study bring to our understanding of society ? Through interviews, essays and reviews this dossier shows how the close study of still or moving (...)

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The Ephrussi Treasure

About: Edmund De Waal, La Mémoire retrouvée, Albin Michel.

by Ivan Jablonka & translated by Victoria Lazar Graham, 15 June 2012

Through the remarkable story of the journey of 264 Japanese miniatures, a world-renowned ceramicist retraces the rise and fall of his family, the Ephrussi, rich Jewish bankers with a dynasty (...)

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Slander or the paradoxes of freedom of speech

About: R. Darnton, The Devil in the Holy Water, Philadelphia University press & C. Walton, Policing Public Opinion in the French Revolution, Oxford University Press.

by Antoine Lilti & translated by Pascale Torracinta, 24 November 2010

Two books devoted to slander during the Age of Enlightenment highlight the explosive nature of speech and literature when they are given free rein. The attacks aimed at the King and (...)

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William T. Vollmann on Writing Poverty

by Nicolas Duvoux, 27 February 2009

Who or what is responsible for your condition? The rich? Destiny? Yourself? The American writer William T. Vollmann posed this question to poor people in every corner of the world. Part social (...)

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The pragmatism of the James brothers

by Stéphane Madelrieux, 27 June 2008

What do Henry and William James have in common, besides being brothers ? Perhaps to have shared the same vision of pragmatism. David Lapoujade’s book renews the comparison between the work of the (...)

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