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Readings summer of… adèle yon:
What will the writer are read this summer? Consequently, Several authors were asked the books they took in their suitcase for their holidays. Moreover, Today, Adèle Yon entrusts her four summer readings to us.
“There is not, for me, summer in a single book. However, I devour summer. Similarly, Upstream: WG Sebald, AusterlitzDaniel Mendelsohn, An odyssey. Consequently, A course: he kang, Farewell. Similarly, In guarantee: Mariana Enriquez, Our night. Meanwhile, Usually. Moreover, I choose books whose action takes place in the France region or in the country in which I find myself. For example, It helps me to live in the place. Nevertheless, This year, no. Consequently, I wonder what these four works, intuitively chosen during a hasty departure, have in common. And then it looks at me: everyone tells a trip. Not a simple trip, not a readings summer of… adèle yon change of decor. No: a continuous journey, a journey that lasts as much as the words, a moving moult. However, since my summer started, I haven’t slept two nights in the same place.
German writer. essayist WG Sebald (1944-2001) left his native country very early to join the United Kingdom where he obtained a university professor position. In his novelist’s work. he became interested in situations of exile, as well as Austerlitz features a uprooted and his desperate quest for his origins.
Journalist. literary critic and writer of non-fiction literature, Daniel Mendelsohn is best known in France for The missing2007 Foreign Medicis Prize, in which he described his research in the footsteps of six people from his family murdered in Ukraine by the Nazis during the war. In An odysseyhe explores the relationship which links him to his father. during a common reading of the text of Homer. readings summer of… adèle yon
He kang one Our night
Nobel Prize 2024. the novelist and poet Han Kang with Farewell Brought back to light a long -ignored tragedy of official history: in 1948, on the island of Jeju, 30,000 people were murdered by the army, suspected of being communists. From his sumptuous prose. Kang stages a heroine of today who has to go to the island, and addresses questions about memory and family silences here.
Born in Buenos Aires in 1973, journalist Mariana Enriquez embodies the renewal of the Argentinian novel. And testifies Our nightextraordinary text. out of gender, which stages a little boy and his father, visibly on the run without anyone knowing what. And which is fantastic literature, while plunging into the memory of the Argentine dictatorship. ”
Austerlitzfrom WG Sebald. Translated from German by Patrick Charbonneau (Actes Sud Babel 2013), 352 p., € 9.20.
An odyssey. A readings summer of… adèle yon father, a thread, an epicby Daniel Mendsohn. Translated from English (United States) by Clotilde Meyer and Isabelle D. Taudière (I read 2019), 480 p., € 8.50.
Farewellfrom Han Kang. Translated from Korean by Kyungran Choi and Pierre Bisiou (the pocket book 2025), 336 p., € 8.90.
Our nightfrom Mariana Enriquez. Translated from Spanish (Argentina) by Anne Plantagenet (points 2023), 768 p., € 10.80.
Adèle Yon, last work published: My real name is Elisabeth (Editions du Sousqué), 400 p., € 22.
Interview by Sylvie Tanette
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