Tag: Autofiction
Annie Ernaux: “The Empty Closets”: Debut of the Nobel Prize winner for literature – Culture
Even before Annie Ernaux received the Nobel Prize for Literature last fall, her German publisher had published translations of her extensive work in succession. A new translation has been published…
Veronica Raimo’s novel “None of this is true”: family disasters – culture
The narrator in Veronica Raimo’s novel None of This Is True sounds a bit like one of those American stand-up comedians, but she’s quintessentially Italian. She constantly puts herself in…
CH-Beck programmer Martin Hielscher in an interview about life as a lecturer – culture
Editor Martin Hielscher set up the fiction program at C.-H.-Beck-Verlag. Now he stops. A conversation about offended writers’ souls, the discovery of Christian Kracht and the books of his life.…
Florence Foresti’s first series, between autofiction and Parisian “Sex and the city”
Do Florence Foresti’s desires Orders ? Canal + broadcasts from this Monday, October 3 the first series of and with Florence Foresti. The comedian embodies her own role, when she…
Marc Degens on Michaelrutschky’s diaries “Selfie without self” – culture
A man, author and publisher opens the PDF file containing the third volume of the journals of a deceased colleague who was his mentor and whom he admires. He types…
Édouard Louis on his mother: “A woman’s freedom”. Review. – Culture
It is the middle of the night when, in her too small apartment in a northern French provincial town, a young woman, in her mid-twenties, three children and married twice…
Rachel Cusk’s new novel “The Other Place.” A review. – Culture
“I told you once, Jeffers”, with these words begins Rachel Cusk’s new novel “The Other Place”. Who is this Jeffers whom the protagonist will address page by page by name…
Carolina Setterwall’s debut “Subject: In Case I Die”. Review. – Culture
The brakes screech. It crashes, violently. Dead silence. Then the sirens of the fire brigade and ambulance wail. Onlookers gather at the roadside. Horror and pity mix with voyeurism and…