Collection, anthology, graphic album: 3 books not to be missed this month!

The link, by Mathilde Levesque and Minh Nguyen, a funny and tender graphic album about teacher-student connections

This is a rare album about what happens in the privacy of classrooms. On what it means to be a teacher – in this case of French – in a high school in Seine-Saint-Denis but also on the bonds that are formed with the students of whom the work also paints some portraits.

In The link (published in September by Payot), we find the verve of Mathilde Levesque, a teacher in Aulnay-Sous-Bois, a graduate in modern literature and a specialist in eloquence to whom she dedicated a dictionary of love in particular, in Plon.

And we discover the talent of self-taught illustrator Minh Nguyen who signs his first comic. “ Together we have tried to open the doors to an environment often hidden from view. Tension can be palpable, desperation hides, insolence sometimes lurks; but it is the price to pay for the strongest bond of all: that of attachment », writes the author in an introductory note to the album.

Built around a school year, this comic is divided into numerous short everyday scenes which, if they can be read separately, draw a plot that is both deep and light. The great success of this album rests in fact on its ability to combine humor and tenderness – without nonsense – without masking the difficulties and challenges of the profession.

*The link by Mathilde Levesque and Minh Nguyen, Payot (September 2023), €21.

The authors, these great erasers who made literaturedirected by Daphné Ticrizenis, volume 2 of the anthology that reveals the literary heritage

“ I am convinced that today’s authors will be able to sustainably maintain their position in the world of letters only if we rehabilitate yesterday’s authors. Literary posterity is acquired only by making a place in history: but the history of literature that we have inherited and that we are still taught remains a history of men » writes the author Daphné Ticrizenis, in the introduction to the second volume of the anthology The authors, these great erasers who made literature which he directed.

One year after the publication of the first part dedicated to the period from the Middle Ages to the Renaissance, the Hors d’reach editions continue their ambitious project of reawakening our literary heritage.

This second work highlights several dozen 18th-century authors.^th and XIX^th century, revealing – without claiming to be exhaustive – the forest hidden behind Georges Sand or Olympe de Gouges, rare survivors of the invisibility of women over the centuries. Emilie du Châtelet, Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont, Françoise de Graffigny, Constance de Salm, Claire de Duras, Louise Colet, Renée Vivien and Germaine de Staël: their names probably don’t tell you much, but some still participated in the big discussions upheavals of this period such as the revolutions of 1789 and 1848 or the Commune. And nourish the richness of our literary history by publishing novels, poems, books for young people, essays or plays.

Thus we discover, for example, that Marie-Jeanne Riccoboni (1713-1792), a successful author of her time, inspired Pierre Choderlos de Laclos to write his famous dangerous relationships. As when reading the first volume, we are surprised, beyond the beauty of the texts, the modernity that emerges from certain passages and the touching closeness that a reader of today can feel in front of an author centuries ago. A must therefore, which will see a sequel next year with the publication of a third part that ranges from the 20th century to the present day.

*The authors, these great erasers who made literature, volume 2, directed by Daphné Ticrizenis, Editions Hors d’reach (September 2023), €27.

Desire, a collection ofand erotic news for women

It is a collection that decisively renews the genre of erotic literature. While women are traditionally mere objects of desire, the six tales of Desire (The Iconoclast) positions them as dance leaders and actresses of their choice.

We will read Emma Becker, author in particular of The House (Flammarion) e Bad behavior (Albin Michel); the comedian Marina Rollman, columnist for France Inter who here tries her hand at writing for the first time; the great Wendy Delorme, who needs no introduction; Emmanuelle Richard, whose fifth bookabstentionists (Flammarion), finally highlighted those who no longer make love; but also the first female writers Laurine Thizy ( Empty housesL’Olivier) and Joy Majdalani (The taste of boysBold).

From their feathers, freed from the vestiges of male gauze, comes the exploration of the multiple and tortuous paths of fantasy. Two or three, tenderly or brutally, with or without love…; it doesn’t matter as long as desire serves as a compass. Burning and joyful lyrics extracted from the “Steamy” podcast – produced by Louie Média – also urgently to be discovered.

*Désirer, collective collection published by L’iconoclaste (September 2023), €17.

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