Why I write
A simple phrase is enough to shake one's inner life: "Why do I write?" A certainty takes shape, paradoxical and burning: writing is pointless...
Category: Literature
The gold digger
One day, his only desire, he fulfilled it effortlessly each day. He would get up and mentally count the time it took him to do it. He counted the time...
Paradise Lost by Sébastien de Courtois
There is a nostalgia for a lost paradise. We all feel it, more or less; it connects us to Original Sin and the Fall. This affliction torments...
The Pump by Clive Staples Lewis
“First, you must rid yourself of this nauseating idea, born of a complex manifesto of inferiority and a worldly mind, that pomp, in the...
Claude Bruaire
Pain refers to the "negative" sensation in an attack that affects the body. The word is used for localized aggression, with varying intensity...
Poetry by Philippe Mac Leod
There is no greater vertigo than your exposed face (…). It is there, on the edge of this barely opened abyss, that one discovers how precious the flesh is….
Our secret, a mystery
We each have our own secret, which we initially keep a mystery to ourselves. Marcel Jouhandeau, in Elements for an Ethics. Grasset Publishers.
Antigone, defiant and intimate (7/7. Love)
Part 7 and final part: Love. Antigone's desire is familial; she does not want to leave her brother unburied. Creon, on the other hand, desires to...
The show “But times always return…” – 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991)
Performance "But Times Always Return..." — 2nd Foreign Infantry Regiment (1991) by Emmanuel Di Rossetti on Vimeo. August 31, 199...
Paul Bourget on France since 1789
Paul Bourget wrote: "A choice must be made; either the people of 1789 were right and the entire ancient edifice must fall; or they were wrong and it is the...".
Transforming the idea into a feeling
Max Jacob to a student: Meditation is not about having ideas, on the contrary! It consists of having one, transforming it into a feeling, into a conviction...
Antigone, defiant and intimate (6/7. The vocation)
So many stories about identity! The word appears neither in Greek epic nor in tragedy. Identity in Antigone's time is based on...
In light of the values
Authority has lost its prestige along with humility. Authority has become synonymous with implacable order, unthinking force, tyranny...
Unamuno on his Quixotic quest
My work – I was about to say my mission – is to shatter the faith of some, and even of a third party: faith in the...