Jacques Pothier

fr

Littérature

Les littératures atlantiques ont été le véhicule privilégié de l'histoire culturelle du Monde...

David Bellos

en

Romain Gary: How to Be Someone Else

The novelist Romain Gary had two connected but quite distinct literary careers, in two languages and...

Yannick Séité

fr en

Can One « Jazz » the French Language ?

The preface to Paul Morand’s collection Magie noire (1929) has been the subject of much discussion,...

Laurence Cossu-Beaumont

fr en

Blanche and Alfred Knopf: Circulating Transatlantic Literature

In 1915, the Knopfs founded a publishing company focusing on translations of contemporary European...

Charlotte Servel

fr en

Soupault and USA: Cinema and Surrealist Poetry in the Roaring Twenties

In the early 1920s, French Surrealist Philippe Soupault saw in American film a new form of modernity...