Witches, oracles and other literary divinations

Witches oracles and other literary divinations

It is not customary, between our pages, to speak of divination or esotericism. However, according to Gaspard’s Bilan du marché du livre au Québec, this sector totaled $967,356 in sales in 2021. This sum, moreover, represents a significant increase of 49.8% compared to the previous year, with its tarots and horoscopes at the top of … Read more

Francesco Montorsi, Memory of the Ancients. Literary traces from Antiquity to the 12th and 13th centuries

Francesco Montorsi Memory of the Ancients Literary traces from Antiquity

This essay addresses the question of how a past, that of the 12th and 13th centuries, represented, transmitted, used, lived another past, that of the Greek and Latin worlds. It then aims to identify and interpret the literary traces of the memory of Antiquity in a corpus of vernacular texts (ancient novels, chronicles, translations of … Read more

Lisbeth Koutchoumoff, literary journalist at Le Temps, joins the Companions of Gutenberg

My dear Lisbeth, At first I really thought about it. How can we talk about you, about our long editorial companionship in the editorial staff of Le Temps, about the passion you have put into chronicling books since 2002, but also about your human qualities without seeing this laudatio turn into hagiography. A literary genre … Read more

Discover the five nominees for the Europe 1-GMF Literary Prize

EVENT These men and women are our everyday heroes. Their vocation is to engage in the service of others, and GMF pays tribute to them for the third edition of the Europe 1 – GMF Literary Prize. The jury, made up of members from Europe 1, GMF and personalities from the world of Letters and … Read more