The author will present “Column” (Stock). The novel sets its action in the summer of 1936, when the very young philosopher Simone Weil joins the Durruti column, on the Aragon front. A “true novel” in which Adrien Bosc pays intense homage to the brief and tragic life of an incandescent woman.
Portrait Gallery
On Wednesday April 13, at 6 p.m., it’s Pierre Assouline who will discuss his new novel “Le Paquebot” (Gallimard). Novelist, biographer, journalist, member of the Goncourt Academy, he goes back in time to February 1932. The liner “Georges Philippar” then left Marseilles for Japan, via the Suez Canal. Pierre Assouline sketches a gallery of colorful portraits, captured in a privileged microcosm. While in Europe start to resound disturbing noises of boots…
