'Was it an intuition that made me select -- I think at the beginning of my adolescence – a form of approach to life linked to English literature through Shakespeare? And can one talk in this case of literature? I think not, I think that even though it was made concrete in a regular reading of the Stratford genius in the middle of the night, it had to do with a study of the possibilities of the human soul and the different models offered us. I would identify with male and female characters, ...

Renée Ferrer's first novel, Los nudos del silencio, has been translated into Italian and French, and is now presented in English. This complex narrative of intrigue, memories, and suspense merits the attention of an active and perceptive audience that can piece together the variegated lines of thought shared by the protagonists of the novel. Three very different worlds come together under one roof in the sordid confines of a striptease joint in Paris. Poetic and vulgar voices mingle and dive...

'Ezza Agha Malak’s new novel, What Have You Done With Your Kids, Dad?, touches upon some particularly painful issues as it describes the abusive relationship of an overbearing, Muslim man seen thru the eyes of his own young children. The progressive breakdown of the couple means more than the separation of two adults with children. Not only do these young ones have to face the terrible psychological assault upon their own mother, but they also have to reconcile themselves with the loss of t...

'Olivier Pascalin s’affirme à chaque nouvelle œuvre littéraire comme un maître consommé de l’analyse introspective.  Médecin des corps et des âmes, il sait mieux que quiconque dépeindre des caractères parfois étranges, voire exotiques, mais toujours attachants. Chantre de l’heuristique, respectueux de la nature et de ses pouvoirs, Olivier Pascalin est un chaman moderne, intermédiaire obligé entre les hommes et les dieux. Il voit quand les autres restent aveugles, parle qua...

Theologians have developed various proposals about the nature of God’s single personal being vis-à-vis the reality of triple divine personhood. These often semantic conceptions have to be juxtaposed to the biblical understanding of divine oneness and evaluated for congruence with it. The two most hopeful theses regarding the meaning of the singleness of God comprehend the divine being in terms of nature and relational dynamic. Unfortunately, these fall short in that they do not uphold the ...

Why does a couple's relationship end? That is the first question the reader of this novel is prompted to ask. It is the story of a couple tearing itself apart discreetly, a couple transformed without knowing why. A couple tested by time and habits. A woman comfortably set in the routine of a life lived in tandem. A man who seeks to leave for no apparent reason. Another who frequents virtual women. A third man who hides behind the cabalistic, life-saving phrase justifying his departure: "Mari...

When Roser Caminals was ten years old her family moved to a neighborhood of grid-patterned streets lined with trees and broad sidewalks; but it is the old city, with its potpourri of blind lottery peddlers, sailors from all over the world walking up from the harbor, fishmongers, tourists, door-to-door salesmen, and a variety shady characters thrown into the mix that finds its way into her fiction. The rich texture of the street life Roser Caminals witnessed during her formative years remains ...

'This book of poems is essentially cabalistic or pseudo-cabalistic, but not because it is in some way mystical, esoteric or secretive, but because it is numerical. At least it deals with a cipher of deep significance: number six (6). Kabbalah comprises a set of esoteric teachings meant to explain through symbols and numbers in most cases the relationship between God and the mortal and finite universe, which, ultimately, is God's creation. Here the poems aim to show in a tone of denouncement t...

Dr.Alain Saint-Saëns is a poet, a playwright, a literary critic, a novelist, and a translator. As a playwright, he recently authored La prisionera (2021); Ña Celestina (2021); Artigas (2017); Soledad. Vida y muerte de una poeta (2016); Romeo y Julieta en el Marzo Paraguayo (2016); Pecados de mi pueblo (2013); and, Ordeal at the Superdome (2010). He is considered as 'the Father of the Paraguayan Theater's Renaissance', a dign successor of great Luis Ruffinelli.

His books of poetry are: Canto...

La notion de forme continue à susciter des débats théoriques dans les études littéraires et dans l’esthétique. Qu’est-ce qu’une forme, au juste? Le consensus sur une définition n’est pas près de s’imposer, d’autant plus que les théoriciens qui s’intéressent à cette notion ont des formations disciplinaires diverses (en linguistique, lettres ou philosophie) et peinent souvent à s’entendre. Comme l’a rappelé récemment Patrice Maniglier dans une défense vigoureuse...