in Florida, a law obliges teachers to hide the books while waiting for their validation

Like her colleagues, Isabelle, a Franco-American teacher, wept. Everyone was in denial, the law seemed so unreal. But two weeks ago hiding all the books has become an obligation. She says: “I covered them, I put a sheet. There are a lot of emotions, sadness, frustration, anger. Many of us are scared of what this … Read more

“Blood Country” by Paul Auster and Spencer Ostrander: autopsy of American violence

By Serge Bressan – Lagrandeparade.fr / Some talk about “mass killings”. Others speak of “mass shootings”. In two days at the end of January 2023, the United States experienced horror. First, a man enters a nightclub in the suburbs of Los Angeles, he shoots, balance sheet: 11 dead, 9 injured. Forty-eight hours later, in farms … Read more

MEMORY OF THE FUTURE: CHILE 2019-2022

Description Chile, October 18, 2019: a popular uprising on an unprecedented scale is shaking the neoliberal system maintained since the end of the Pinochet dictatorship. September 4, 2022: the constitutional proposal drawn up by the Constituent Assembly resulting from this revolt is rejected by referendum. During these three years, the social movements carried out a … Read more

‘The two Pulitzers haven’t changed much’: Colson Whitehead, ‘America’s storyteller’

He still has his dreadlocks. We worried about it, with the honors due to its double Pulitzer (a double that only three authors, including Faulkner and Updike, achieved before him), decorated with a National Book Award, the new glory of American letters had changed? Did Colson Whitehead keep a cool head? “I’m still the same, … Read more

Books. Our selection of picture books to offer that will amaze children

One has to go back to 1957 to find the reference album Father Castor’s picture book. Each image is accompanied by a caption and gradually leads the child to recognize and name representations of everyday life. Since then, many artists have appropriated the genre – a French specialty whose term has no equivalent in other … Read more

After the Nobel Prize in Literature, Frenchwoman Annie Ernaux was acclaimed in New York

During an exchange with the public, the novelist was warmly thanked by a young woman for doing so. “enter feminism“through reading her autobiographical novel on abortion,” The Event “(2000), brought to the screen last year by Audrey Diwan.”It’s wonderful for me, the carrier, because I don’t feel responsible for this effect my books have on … Read more

New pro-Russian authorities in invaded jap Ukraine transform textbooks

There is turmoil in the Donetsk region: professional-Russian educational institutions and instructors, now underneath Russian command, are busy for the new university yr, college shelves are complete: the software will be 100% Russian with suitable textbooks. “We will completely stock our educational facilities in the Donetsk People’s Republic – all grades from 1st to 11th, … Read more

Work

Work As part of the preparation program entrance exams to the Grandes Ecolesthe Lycée Henri Bergson in Angers, is organizing a university study day on the works on the program on: TUESDAY JANUARY 24, 2023 Referral program: General theme “Work” 1. The Working ConditionSimone Weil – Gallimard, collection Folio Essais, 2002, n° 409, to be … Read more

Marcel Schwob, writer of trouble (Jean Monnet Saint-Étienne University)

Marcel Schwob, troubled writer Jean Monnet Saint-Etienne University Study day, June 6, 2023 Reading Marcel Schwob, “the trouble remains”. Thus expresses his niece the artist Claude Cahun (The sheaf, May 1920). She clarifies a few lines later: “He carried within him a strange and disturbing universe”. This shows the confusing, elusive character of the work … Read more

Boulogne 1550

International meetig Boulogne 1550 Boulogne-sur-Mer, 23-25 ​​November 2023 Circle of Studies in Boulonnais CountryLittoral Côte d’Opale University, UR HLLI Organizers: Isabelle Clauzel-Delannoy, Jean Devaux On April 25, 1550, St. Mark’s Day, King Henry II of France made his solemn entry into the city of Boulogne-sur-Mer, bought from the English after six years of occupation. The … Read more