News — Nazim Hikmet

Jean-Louis Coatrieux, author of In absentia, published jointly by Chemins de tr@verse/La Part Commune, was interviewed by Arnaud Wassmer of RCF radio. Find the interview here: http://www.rcf.fr/radio/RCF35/ emission/last/129382 .

For this latest edition of our summer reading, we have chosen... an unclassifiable. One of those UFOs of literature, which refuse to join the traditional sections of our libraries. In absentia , by Jean-Louis Coatrieux, is in some way an imaginary (but not fictional) dialogue between the author and authors who have influenced him: Nazim Hikmet, Federico Garcia Lorca, Pablo Neruda. The common thread between these three personalities? Resistance, the rejection of the world as it is in favor of a world " as they wanted to create it, free, luminous, insolent". In absentia is therefore also a reflection on...

“Towards the South, you you will have Granada, its stone walls where the day does not come, at hand left, the Bosphorus then arid plateaus planted with fig trees, and way over there on the right, Valparaiso, wrinkled by the sun and the salt. Three lands, three wounds. They won't be there for you anymore. open their door but you can enter without fear as long as you loved life and literature." Thus opens “In absentia », the new book by Jean-Louis Coatrieux, published this Friday, May 10 by Chemins de tr@verse (ebook version) and La Part Commune (paper version)....