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Reading, Rereading, Conversations.

History emerging through individual voices.
MEMORY · TESTIMONY · POLYPHONY
© St Martin's Press 2006
Svetlana Alexievitch
Voices of Utopia
1983-2013

The simplicity of a story, and the necessity of its message.
SIMPLICITY · MEANING · TRANSMISSION
© Harpen Thorsons 2015
Richard Bach
Jonathan Livingston Seagull – A Story
1970

Learning to read beyond the text.
LANGUAGE · RELATIONSHIPS · ARCHIVES
© Penguin 2009
Roland Barthes
Selected works

The necessity of every word.
POETRY · ATTENTION · RELATION
© Shambhalda 1999
Christian Bobin
Selected works

Writing from the traces left by histories, languages and encounters.
TRACE · CREOLITY · RELATION
© University of Virginia Press 2022
Patrick Chamoiseau
Selected works

An identity written between two languages.
BILINGUALISM · IDENTITY · LANGUAGE
© Prise de Parole 2008
Patrice Desbiens
L’homme invisible / The Invisible Man
1981

Learning to look from elsewhere, and to think in layers.
PERSPECTIVE · IDENTITY · HISTORY
© Grove Press 1994
Frantz Fanon
Selected works

Relation without the disappearance of difference.
RELATION · IDENTITY · ENCOUNTER
© Penguin 2025
Édouard Glissant
Poétique
1956-2005

Making history speak in another voice.
HISTORY · LANGUAGE · VIOLENCE
© Penguin 2007
Ahmadou Kourouma
Allah Is Not Obliged
2000

The quiet force of a life shaped by the land.
SLOWNESS · LAND · TERROIR
© BQ 2015
Patrice Lacombe
La Terre paternelle
1848

Making the unseen visible on stage.
THEATRE · ABSENCE · VISION
© Oxford University Press 1997
Maurice Maeterlinck
The Blind
1890

Reading as a way back to the practice of writing.
VOICE · MEMORY · SILENCE
© Minuit 2011
Laurent Mauvignier
Selected works

The meeting of memory, history, body and belonging.
POETRY · MEMORY · RELATION
© Hannenorak 2019
Maya C. Mollen
Bréviaire du matricule 082
2019

Finding the self through language.
LANGUAGE · SPEECH · SELF
© P.O.L 2010
Valère Novarina
Devant la parole
1999

Thinking through the ways memory becomes narrative.
MEMORY · NARRATIVE · IDENTITY
© The University of Chicago Press 2009
Paul Ricœur
Selected works

History rewritten from elsewhere.
HISTORY · PERSPECTIVE · REWRITING
© McGill-Queen's University Press 1992
Georges E. Sioui
For an Amerindian Autohistory
1989

Memory is made of forgetting.
COLLECTIVE MEMORY · HISTORY · AMNESIA
© PUM 2018
Bernabé Wesley
L'oubliothèque mémorable de L.-F. Céline
2018

Encounter as transformation.
ANTHROPOPHAGY · CULTURE · RELATION
© Reconvexed 2025
Oswald de Andrade
The Anthropophagic Manifesto
1928

The world transformed by the imagination.
IMAGINATION · POETICS · DREAM
© Dallas Institute of Humanity 2011
Gaston Bachelard
Air and Dreams
1943

Beauty held between opposing forces.
DUALITY · TENSION · MODERNITY
© W W Norton & Co 2023
Charles Baudelaire
The Flowers of Evil
1857

Learning to see what shapes our ways of seeing.
SOCIETY · RELATIONS · VALUE
© John Wiley and Sons 1992
Pierre Bourdieu
Selected works

Writing the self into existence, while making it uncertain.
AUTOFICTION · SELF · LANGUAGE
© PUF 2010
Chloé Delaume
La Règle du Je
2010

Writing as a way of living, and living as a way of writing.
WRITING · ATTENTION · CRAFT
© Harper 2009
Annie Dillard
The Writing Life
1989

No text exists entirely on its own.
INTERTEXTUALITY · FORM · RELATION
© University Press of Nebraska 1997
Gérard Genette
Selected works

The architecture of a story unfolding across generations.
CYCLE · STRUCTURE · TIME
© Pan Macmillan 2016
Elizabeth Jane Howard
Selected works

French Algeria seen through the lives caught within its histories and violence.
HISTORY · RELATIONS · VIOLENCE
© Mialet Barrault 2022
Yasmina Khadra
Les Vertueux
2022

An identity is never made of only one belonging.
IDENTITY · PLURALITY · BELONGING
© Penguin 2003
Amin Maalouf
In the Name of Identity
1998

ne voice carrying the echoes of violence across generations.
FORM · VIOLENCE · VOICE
© Elyzad 2021
Yamen Manaï
Selected works

Understanding the self through the relationships shaped by colonialism.
COLONIALISM · IDENTITY · POWER
© Profile Books 2021
Albert Memmi
Selected works

An identity caught between personal history and collective memory.
IDENTITY · HISTORY · MEMORY
© E. Malfère 1926
Abel Moreau
Le Fou
1926

Making absence visible through form.
ABSENCE · FORM · MEMORY
© Vintage Digital 2012
Georges Perec
Selected works

Understanding how memory works.
MEMORY · HISTORY · ARCHIVES
© Stock 2003
Régine Robin
Selected works

Breaking language to make something new.
EXPERIMENTATION · RUPTURE · LANGUAGE
© Calder 1977
Tristan Tzara
Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries
1916-1920

What writing can become.
WRITING · FREEDOM · CREATION
© Penguin 2020
Virginia Woolf
A Room of One's Own
1929

Identity reconstructed through the theatre of memory.
IDENTITY · MEMORY · DRAMATURGY
© Samuel French 2010
Jean Anouilh
The Traveller Without Luggage
1937

The fragility of an identity in the eyes of others.
IDENTITY · MEMORY · RECOGNITION
© New Directions 1997
Honoré de Balzac
Colonel Chabert
1832

A constant invitation to take the form elsewhere.
THEATRE · RISK · FORM
© Faber & Faber 2010
Samuel Beckett
Waiting for Godot (1953)
1953

What remains when experience resists being told.
TRAUMA · NARRATIVE · HISTORY
© John Hopkins University Press 1996
Cathy Caruth
Unclaimed Experience
1996

The absent is never quite absent.
SPECTRALITY · MEMORY · ABSENCE
© Taylor & Francis 2026
Jacques Derrida
Specters of Marx
1993

The self reconstructed through the gaze of others.
BODY · VIOLENCE · IDENTITY
© Bouquins 2023
Victor Dumiot
Acide
2023

The landscape becomes alive.
NATURE · SYMBOLISM · TERROIR
© NYRB 2016
Jean Giono
Hill
1929

When the architecture of a story becomes part of the mystery.
IDENTITY · STRUCTURE · SUSPENSE
© The Harvill Press 1999
Sébastien Japrisot
Trap for Cinderella
1963

An oeuvre shaped by the movement between languages, genres and forms.
LANGUAGE · BILINGUALISM · FORM
© Faber & Faber 2020
Milan Kundera
Selected works

Lives shaped by the stories they encounter.
NARRATIVE · INTERTEXTUALITY · ENCOUNTER
© Soft Skull 2010
Alain Mabanckou
Broken Glass
2005

An encounter between childhood and worlds beyond its own.
WORLDS · CHILDHOOD · CYCLES
© Douglas & Mcintyre 1994
Suzanne Martel
The City Under Ground
1963

New forms for stories that need to be told.
THEATRE · FORM · NECESSITY
© Albin Michel 2024
Alexis Michalik
Passeport
2024

Motifs that make social violence visible.
MEMORY · RACISM · MOTIFS
© Penguin 2024
Toni Morrison
The Bluest Eye
1970

Making systemic violence visible through individual lives.
VIOLENCE · SOCIETY · PERSPECTIVE
© Archipelago Books 2025
Émelie Prophète
Cécé
2020

A mind in motion.
WALKING · SOLITUDE · REFLECTION
© Hackett Publishing 1992
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The Reveries of the Solitary Walker
1776-1778

Questioning who gets to preserve and transmit history.
COLONIALISM · MUSEUMS · MEMORY
© Pluto Press 2024
Françoise Vergès
A Programme of Absolute Disorder
2023

The mysterious seeping into the real.
MYSTERY · FANTASTIC · STORYTELLING
© W&N 2019
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Selected works