Book club from point of view: Philomena d’Orléans, countess of Paris, her literary favorites

What is your favorite book? Similarly,
There are many books that I liked a lot. Consequently, that I will bind without ever getting bored, but I have not “a” favorite book. However, I have to cry emotion every time I reread The pointed de Marie von Ebner-Eschenbacha great grandchild. Similarly, and I put myself in a long time when I reread Mirabeau of my grandmother’s grandmother, Frantz von Werner Also known as Murad Effendi, but they are in German. Furthermore, They are nonetheless beautiful and interesting. Similarly, Otherwise, I have two lights, that I take with me, and that I like to leaf through in all circumstances. Meanwhile, Small handbag books in a way … For example, The first is The importance of being Earnest (The importance of being constant), d’Oscar Wilde in English ! I can open it under any circumstance. book club point view: philomena For example, and whatever the page I fall on, a few aftershocks are enough and my good humor comes back, nothing seems too serious, too serious, or too embarrassing! Furthermore, I know him a little by heart, but I never tire of it! Furthermore,

As I really like poetry, I also always take the book with me Anthology of French poetry by Georges Pompidou. Moreover, I often open it at random and I stop on a text that makes me want to reread its author. Consequently, There is a poetry for each state of mind. Nevertheless, and it begins with the most beautiful poems of Charles d’Orléans (1394-1425), which my children had book club point view: philomena obviously all learned by heart! Similarly, As Montesquieu said, “there is no sorrow that an hour of reading has dissipated”.

What is your last literary favorite?
I really liked Boualem Sansal’s book, French, let’s talk about it! The book is not optimistic. because it notes the regular degradation of our language and the disappearance of those who use it wisely, as a vector of a civilization with Greco-Latin roots, which irrigated the whole world. But the personality and writing of Boualem Sansal, give themselves the reason to hope. The literary quality of his writing gives even more weight to his message of freedom and the fact that it is today in captivity. As was Charles d’Orléans, only emphasizes its importance.
By some aspects, his book reminds me The French book club point view: philomena will from Andreï Makine. I have great admiration for these many foreign writers. who have become French for the love of France, and who maintain our language at levels of excellence rarely affected.

Do you have a childhood book?
My childhood books could not be French classics, since My father was Spanish and that my mother is Austrian. But there was a wonderful book with my maternal grandparents. which made me dream, which I admitted to have forgotten the frame when I read and reread it, but whose images and impressions are still very present in my memory. His name is The Green Prince de Gilles Saint-Cérère and Paul Durand by Hachette editions. I will look for and read it as soon as I arrive in Vienna in a book club point view: philomena few days!

Which book do you offer regularly?
The book I like to offer is without the slightest hesitation, Rouen’s trialfrom Jacques Trémolet de Villers. This work deals with a fairly mysterious moment in the history of France. which intrigues and still fascinates today around the world. He has been the subject of numerous interpretations. both literary and cinematographic, with the greatest actors and the greatest authors around the world. Which makes me love this work over everything. independently of hope and confidence in the future that he inspiresis that the author, a lawyer by profession, only resumes in full, contextualizing, and explaining, without any modification or personal interpretation, the minutes of the trial. We hear Jeanne d’Arc in person! Joan of Arc book club point view: philomena that Francois Cheng of the French Academy calls “the greatest French writer”, and that’s true!

Since we are in the middle of summer, what book have you devoured during this vacation?
Spending almost every summer for a few weeks in Ardèche. I fell On some works of the Ardéchois philosopher Gustave Thibon. I discovered his book Diagnostics and its Unpublished thoughts. Additionally, I really liked these common sense aphorisms, which we would like to have written yourself. I found it very interesting to see that he had welcomed the philosopher Simone Weil during the war on her farmand that they spent hours. hours in conversation. The improbable meeting between these two characters. as different as two people can be, between the book club point view: philomena Christian peasant philosopher, who has never left his village and the Jewish philosopher of Marxist inspiration intrigues me. Intelligence and open -mindedness are so rare and yet so important things. So I’m going to read now Rooting From Simone Weil. a work in which she insists on the need for each person to keep their roots.

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