French Culture
An eerily at peace coterie.
Briggs delves into her experience translating Roland Barthes’s La Préparation du roman to offer us a poignant account of what this translation compulsion might be.
Four generations of unhappiness populate the French auteur’s latest.
It is both a memoir of Lindon’s literary friendships and a treatise on survival, a tribute to the friends whose care and love, in Lindon’s words, saved his life, even as they were themselves lost.
The French writer Édouard Louis recorded his days in New York, around the time of the American release of his novel The End of Eddy. The following entries originally appeared in French in the June 6, 2017, edition of Les Inrockuptibles.
“We never thought, ‘We have to give them dignity.’ We thought we have to give them empathy.”
Sexual awakening amid poverty and violence in Édouard Louis’s The End of Eddy
Old iconography in a new France
I’d rather be in my bed, eyes in the dark, lying on my back, head resting on a soft pillow, than in the desert, even in the company of Félicien David, even in the company of Sarah.
“I was spooling cassette tape all around my room in a big loop, running it around and through things. At the time, I got the impression I had invented the loop.”
These two slim volumes, which are somehow stories, memoirs, meditations, diaries, and novels all in one, operate as much at the level of the sentence as that of the story.
The author’s first novel is set in Mexico City, but its themes of violence, grief, and solitude are truly global.
Venezuelan-born artist Javier Téllez’s first exhibition at Koenig & Clinton took its title from his recent film To Have Done with the Judgment of God (2016) and concerns an experience that marked Antonin Artaud’s life in 1936: the author’s encounter with the Rarámuri community living in the Sierra Tarahumara in northwest Mexico.
“As soon as you film someone it accelerates the deterioration of love.”
North of Paris, west of Texas—Laster’s community-based social sculptures span cultures and continents.
As both physician and filmmaker, Lilti discusses his recent hospital drama and the challenges of medical and artistic practice.
Cinematic choreography and the art of showing, not telling.
The “grandmother of the French New Wave” discusses her ever-evolving artistic practice.
American-born French director applies the paradox of the Baroque worldview to the composition of his films, and most recently, to La Sapienza. Nicholas Elliott probes Green’s interest in the tension between spirit and reason.
