Whether it is accepted with greater or lesser reluctance, Michel Houellebecq’s dazzling narrative career has been sustained on the basis of a conjugation of virulent philippics against these liquid and hypermodern times of misrule, consumerism and banality. In Annihilation, his latest and long-awaited novel – which deals with a future presidential campaign in France, with … Read more
Your wound opens to the light, by Francois Vayne Algiers, Lourdes, Rome, Jerusalem: here is the pilgrimage of the life of a man born in Algeria in 1962. A man of dialogue, who, as a child, went to pray at the tomb of Charles de Foucauld in the desert, because his father, whom he had … Read more
Therese of Lisieux, four works selected by Hélène Mongin “Je I will desire in Heaven the same thing as on earth: to love Jesus and make him loved”, wrote little Thérèse a few months before her death, in 1897. To help the saint of Lisieux pursue her mission, Hélène Mongin, editor at Éditions de l’Emmanuel, … Read more
Cinémiracles, religious wonder on screenMiracles by the Thousands A work that would have been greatly appreciated by the great French-speaking specialists in the spiritual approach to cinema in the 1950s and 1960s, such as André Bazin, Henry Agel, Amedee Ayfre Where Michel Esteve. Timothée Gerardin looks, meanwhile, at the representation of miracles and various related … Read more
AT THE START IN THE SIGN OF SPORT: MATTEO MARANI AND GIOVANNI GALLITHE WORLD WHICH CHANGED ITALY TELLS SPAIN ’82 Six evenings in the evocative setting of Villa Pallavicini to meet the protagonists of culture, sport and art: at the center the themes of hope, freedom, the challenges of Europe but also the memory of … Read more
On the feast of Saint George and the Day of the Book, many readers decide to visit bookshops and, in Catalonia, the streets with exposed books, to stock up on good reading. In ReligionInFreedom we want to point out some books on faith and spirituality that are worth knowing. Several are short novels, others are … Read more
(Illustration: Jovani Pérez) Online stores like amazon they have become an ally of readers, because through them books can be purchased quickly and easily, especially for those who do not have so much time available to visit bookstores or libraries. Since relieve sadness, help deal with anxiety, cause great emotions like happiness, cultivate ourselves and … Read more