The weekly “Le 1” and the literary journalist François Busnel launched Wednesday “America”, a quarterly review devoted to America of the Trump years as seen by writers.
Contents of this first issue: the Nobel Prize for Literature Toni Morrison describes in an interview a country which “is heading straight for the abyss”, the writer Ta-Nehisi Coates draws up an intimate assessment of the Obama presidency, and Marc Dugain s ‘imagine as an adviser to the new president.
“America was born from the election of Donald Trump,” Eric Fottorino, former director of Le Monde and director of “1”, which co-publishes the review, told AFP. “What can American literature do in the face of a phenomenon like this?”
According to François Busnel, who directs the new review and presents “La Grande Librairie” on France 5, “Americans need to be whipped up by the news to bring out great things”. For the former director of the magazine Lire, “since September 11, 2001 there has been a revival of American literature”.
“America” salutes in its first issue Sinclair Lewis, Bret Easton Ellis and Philip Roth, three American authors who “had told us” in their accounts that a president like Donald Trump would be elected. “The writers, them, are armed: nothing surprises them”, underlines François Busnel.
In a polished format, close to the XXI magazine, America also offers classics with commentary in French and in the original version, and reports. For this first issue, the ex-correspondent of Le Monde in New York, Sylvain Cypel, went to meet the “poor little whites” of Ohio and Michigan, the middle classes who voted overwhelmingly for the candidate. republican.
Sold for 19 euros in newsstands and bookstores, the 196-page magazine is scheduled to appear during the four years of Donald Trump’s tenure as head of the United States, for a total of 16 issues. Its first issue is printed in 50,000 copies.
22/03/2017 09:15:30 – Paris (AFP) – © 2017 AFP
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