Mid- December had arrived in South Kensington, and winter was descending upon buildings and streets, as if it could swallow up everything...

Tram 83, as a bar or club in a part of Africa called the ‘Ville- Pays’- ‘Town- Country’- is the focus of nightmare, is like Hieronymus...

Baudelaire, in ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, is Janus- like. He looks forwards, and he looks backwards. His verse forms are, on the whole,...

‘Nous sommes les oiseaux de la tempete qui s’ annonce’, by Lola Lafon, was not available on the shelves of the Mediatheque (currently...

Often, Africans are portrayed as an anonymous mass without individuality- for example, in Joseph Conrad’s ‘Heart of Darkness’, which is...

By all accounts, Alain Mabanckou’s inaugural lecture at the Collège de France in March 2016 was thoroughly engaging and intellectually...

Michel Tournier addresses two equally dangerous subjects- fascism and pedophilia- in his ‘Le Roi Des Aulnes’. He comments on history-...

In ‘L’Armee Furieuse’, Fred Vargas manipulates, subverts, to a degree, but not totally, the genre of the ‘roman policier’. As a woman...

On the occasion of Michel Tournier’s death in January this year, Bernard Pivot, the president of the Académie Goncourt, stated that he...

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