Theme Art & culture
There are numerous writers that have chosen France as their country of residence, from Americans fleeing McCarthyism to British writers who appreciate the French way of life,or Chinese writers after Tiananmen square. These authors from all walks of life express their passion for or criticisms of the host country.
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This collection focuses on French philosophers as seen or heard on television and radio in portraits, accounts by other people and interviews. Among their number are Alain, Bergson and Simone Weil, for whom there is no film footage, and others who have had substantial TV and media coverage, such as Finkielkraut, Comte-Sponville, and Michel Serres.
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International literature from the 1950s to the present day: this selection presents a range of interviews with writers from all over the world, from Nigeria to Albania, and from the former Soviet Union to the US.
See Theme-based collection"There were two watchwords that for us were one and the same," said writer André Breton: to "Transform the world" like Marx and "Change life" in line with Rimbaud". Maurice Nadeau defined Surrealism as "the first artistic movement to have an influence and an international audience". Several years later, television told the "Surrealistic story.
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A retrospective of France's two prestigious literary prizes, the Goncourt and the Renaudot, awarded every November. Tradition requires that the annual joint ceremony be held at the Drouant restaurant in Paris.
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A presentation of the writers Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Robert Pinget, among others, who were part of the "Nouveau Roman" or New Novel movement. They shared the same desire to distance themsleves from traditional writing and storytelling, and bring literature up to date with "the major aesthetic breaks with the past".
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This collection contains a selection of writers' "one-liners", taken from television interviews and grouped by theme. The topics chosen range from professional to very private. Childhood, the influence of what they read, the writer and their times, and creative writing.
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