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Reading, Rereading, Conversations.
History emerging through individual voices.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Learning to read beyond the text.

LANGUAGE · RELATIONSHIPS · ARCHIVES

© Penguin 2009

Roland Barthes

Selected works

The necessity of every word.
 

The necessity of every word.

POETRY · ATTENTION · RELATION

© Shambhalda 1999

Christian Bobin

Selected works

Writing from the traces left by histories, languages and encounters.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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 without the disappearance of difference.

RELATION · IDENTITY · ENCOUNTER

© Penguin 2025

Édouard Glissant

Poétique

1956-2005

Making history speak in another voice.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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 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.
 

Memory is made of forgetting.

COLLECTIVE MEMORY · HISTORY · AMNESIA

© PUM 2018

Bernabé Wesley

L'oubliothèque mémorable de L.-F. Céline

2018

Encounter as transformation.
 

Encounter as transformation.

ANTHROPOPHAGY · CULTURE · RELATION

© Reconvexed 2025

Oswald de Andrade

The Anthropophagic Manifesto

1928

The world transformed by the imagination.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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 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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Making absence visible through form.

ABSENCE · FORM · MEMORY

© Vintage Digital 2012

Georges Perec

Selected works

Understanding how memory works.
 

Understanding how memory works.

MEMORY · HISTORY · ARCHIVES

© Stock 2003

Régine Robin

Selected works

Breaking language to make something new.
 

Breaking language to make something new.

EXPERIMENTATION · RUPTURE · LANGUAGE

© Calder 1977

Tristan Tzara

Seven Dada Manifestos and Lampisteries

1916-1920

What writing can become.
 

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 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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

The self reconstructed through the gaze of others.

BODY · VIOLENCE · IDENTITY

© Bouquins 2023

Victor Dumiot

Acide

2023

The landscape becomes alive.
 

The landscape becomes alive.

NATURE · SYMBOLISM · TERROIR

© NYRB 2016

Jean Giono

Hill

1929

When the architecture of a story becomes part of the mystery.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

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.
 

Motifs that make social violence visible.

MEMORY · RACISM · MOTIFS

© Penguin 2024

Toni Morrison

The Bluest Eye

1970

Making systemic violence visible through individual lives.
 

Making systemic violence visible through individual lives.

VIOLENCE · SOCIETY · PERSPECTIVE

© Archipelago Books 2025

Émelie Prophète

Cécé

2020

A mind in motion.
 

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.
 

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.
 

The mysterious seeping into the real.

MYSTERY · FANTASTIC · STORYTELLING

© W&N 2019

Carlos Ruiz Zafón

Selected works

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