Oulipo n'est pas une avant-garde. Depuis plus de soixante ans, ce groupe, fondé en 1961 par l'écrivain français Raymond Queneau et le mathématicien français François le Lionnais, est toujours actif. Caractérisé par sa nature multigénérationnelle, de 1961 à aujourd'hui, l’Oulipo a réuni des personnalités littéraires et culturelles aussi diverses que Raymond Queneau, Georges Perec, Italo Calvino, Harry Mathews, Ross Chambers, Jacques Roubaud, Marcel Bénabou, Michelle Grangaud, ...

Samira Etouil, dans ce livre magnifique, explore le discours de l’altérité dans les carnets de voyage du Français Pierre Loti (1850-1923) intitulés Au Maroc. Cette approche interdisciplinaire a comme objectif d’identifier les stratégies discursives auxquelles est soumis l’Autre et d’analyser les modes de sa représentation. En ce sens, l’intérêt est porté sur les interactions qui gèrent les rapports au monde visité et les substrats culturels qui les définissent. L’auteu...

Like a spiral woven around two axes—a trip and a truncated novel—The Reef captures the insecurities of a time of terror, that of the Argentine military dictatorship of 1976-1983. But times and spaces are ambiguous as are the identities of the protagonist, the narrator, and the secondary characters of this novel written in an original, daring style. As the protagonist struggles to write her first novel, she is constantly interrupted and frustrated by reality. And so what would be a roma...

Soledad, de Alain Saint-Saëns, es la adaptación teatral de la novela de Juan Manuel Marcos, El invierno de Gunter. Cuenta la vida de tres jóvenes, Alberto, Verónica y Soledad bajo la Dictadura del General Stroessner en Paraguay.

'El mensaje de la obra literaria de Juan Manuel Marcos, El invierno de Gunter, es universal y actual. Valía ayer en el Paraguay del siniestro tiranosaurio el General Alfredo Stroessner, vale hoy en la Venezuela del Presidente Nicolás Maduro o en la República de...

The feminine, or 'Woman,' was one of the main inspirations in Modernismo's expression, and the still current exclusion of women poets from this movement's canon is contrary to its own foundational concepts of innovation, rupture and the importance of personal expression. This book examines the philosophical and epistemological underpinnings of Modernismo to show that there were indeed women who expressed beauty, broke with tradition and, in their search for a female Modernista voice, were inn...

'Brillante ensayo crítico, el nuevo libro de Alain Saint-Saëns dedicado a la poesía de Juan Manuel Marcos, es al mismo tiempo una incursión apasionante dentro de la historia literaria, cultural y política del Paraguay del siglo XX. Gracias a la cultura impresionante, la sensibilidad poética y el talento evidente de Alain Saint-Saëns, sus lectores descubrirán no solamente la poesía potente, noble y bella de Juan Manuel Marcos, sin duda una de las más ricas hojas de la historia liter...

“Peering into the labyrinth of Mexico’s justice system in the 1970s, Vicious Circle could have been written yesterday. Mexican playwright José Agustín skillfully integrates enduring themes relevant in contemporary Mexico—drugs, crime, and corruption—to weave together an unenviable prisoner’s dilemma for four young hippies who find themselves between the rock and hard place that was Mexico’s unforgiving Lecumberri prison, where Agustín found his inspiration. Exceptionally transl...

Ce livre, La Nouvelle-Orléans et son Port en 1954, est le fruit des recherches sur le terrain d’un jeune étudiant de l’École des Sciences Politiques de Paris, Jacques Chirac. Ce petit ouvrage vient jeter un éclairage utile sur la pensée en formation d’un étudiant curieux, critique et lucide ; il devra être pris en compte par les futurs historiens de l’homme politique qui aura marqué l’histoire de la France contemporaine des dernières quarante années. Jacques Chirac retour...

LAMSDORF

In Their Own Words

Experiences related by prisoners of war at

Stalag VIIIB/344 Lamsdorf

and its working parties

during the Second World War.

In truth the whole picture is really like a vast jigsaw, and each of the many thousands of pieces is an individual, and each of these individuals has a story; and each of these stories is complicated, fascinating, perhaps distressing in parts, and many of the stories demonstrate the strength and goodness of human nature that can emerge in severe...

Dividuals explores the other side, or hidden side of modern subjectivity, as seen in (mostly four) early modern Spanish classics. Veering away from the hypertrophied notions of individuality and identity, which constitute the bases of our own post-humanism and even anti-humanism, this essay looks into how, as humans, and as humanists, we have a long history of showing dividuality, a never-ending split in our beings. The split manifests itself in the humanist’s split between historicist, soc...