Ladivine - format ePub

Nadia, la narratrice, est institutrice à Bordeaux dans la même école que son mari, Ange. Ils vivent leur profession comme un apostolat et en tirent une authentique félicité. Mais depuis quelque temps...

Délivrance : Un exilé écrit à sa femme. Ses lettres se succèdent, dans lesquelles il la supplie d'aller voir ses vieux parents, réclame des nouvelles d'elle et de leur enfant... Berlin mon garçon :...

Me Susane, quarante-deux ans, avocate récemment installée à Bordeaux, reçoit la visite de Gilles Principaux. Elle croit reconnaître en cet homme celui qu’elle a rencontré quand elle avait dix ans, et...

Gabrielle est professeure de français à Royan. Elle s’adresse aux parents de Daniella. Dans son monologue vindicatif plane le sentiment d’une faute inexpiable dont la narratrice se sent à la fois accablée...

Marie NDiaye et Dominique Zehrfuss ont composé ensemble un livre rare et réjouissant, Vingt-huit bêtes : un chant d'amour, constitué du long poème écrit par la première et d'un bestiaire de 28 peintures...

Les quatre auteurs - femmes et écrivains - dont les romans font l'objet de cette étude abordent la question du sujet narratif, opérant, chacune à sa façon sur un mode théorique différent. Dans l'�uvre...

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Longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2016Clarisse Rivière's life is shaped by a refusal to admit to her husband Richard and to her daughter Ladivine that her mother is a poor black housekeeper....

Elle entendait la voix égale et limpide du garçon, ni lion ni souffle n’en altérait la placide assurance. Il semblait, lui, aussi, ce Denis, pareil aux petites feuilles du lilas, se consumer sans brûler....

User du bon sens pour trouver la vérité en toute chose et agir pour relever les défis du développement est le leitmotiv de cette contribution. Une invitation à l'engagement au niveau individuel et dans...

"Khady enjamba les corps de ses belles-sœurs étendues sur un second matelas, et bien qu’elle ne souhaitât pas entendre leurs voix railleuses et dures ni voir briller dans l’aube grisâtre leurs yeux sans...

Trois récits, trois femmes qui disent non. Elles s'appellent Norah, Fanta, Khady Demba. Chacune se bat pour préserver sa dignité contre les humiliations que la vie lui inflige avec une obstination méthodique...

«J'avais décidé de ne pas en parler. Je me disais : si tu commences, on verra que tu as peur et tu seras bien obligée d'avouer que tu as peur. Tant que je n'en parlais pas, ce n'était qu'un songe un...

Le chien tendit vers elle sa grosse tête au poil crasseux. Elle retint sa main par crainte de la vermine. Elle noya son regard dans le regard calmement éploré, calmement suppliant, et toute l'humanité...

Maria «l'Antillaise » pose, le regard lointain, pour le photographe Nadar dans les années 1860. Maria Martinez, «la Malibran noire », artiste originaire de La Havane, connaît le succès sur la scène parisienne...

"Toutes ses facultés d’aimer, de se donner, de souffrir, d’espérer, la cuisine s’en était emparée bien avant que je la rencontre, et le peu de ces ressources d’amour qui parvenait à se détourner de la...

Trois récits, trois femmes qui disent non. Elles s'appellent Norah, Fanta, Khady Demba. Chacune se bat pour préserver sa dignité contre les humiliations que la vie lui inflige avec une obstination méthodique...

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