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In the digital age, where everything is easily accessible at the click of a button, you might think that paper books would be on the way out. And yet, in the midst of the health crisis we’ve been experiencing, the book market has been booming. Taking away people’s access to cultural venues such as bookshops […]

I did not expect to survive, / earth suppressing me. I didn’t expect / to waken again, to feel / in damp earth my body / able to respond again, remembering / after so long how to open again / in the cold light / of earliest spring- I didn’t expect to survive, / the […]

Discover the second episode of the series From sign to sound. Our journey into the art of interpretation continues. From Renata Tebaldi’s “angel’s voice” to Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau’s “voice of the soul”. Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was the interpreter of the Lied par excellence: 3,000 Lieder by a hundred different composers! We pay tribute to him on the […]

Is it possible to discover the secrets of science while having fun? Is science an intimidating and abstract discipline? What if approaching a subject in a totally new way could break down psychological barriers? Should we believe the most illustrious scientists when they say they have no particular gift, but an enormous capacity for questioning […]

Art has been present in fiction since the 19th century: Honoré de Balzac, Maurice Leblanc, Oscar Wilde, Emile Zola. In contemporary novels, we often find the character of the artist or the world of the arts: in Marie Darrieussecq, Michel Houellebecq or Haruki Murakami, for literature. Julian Schnabel, Christian Schwochow and Julie Taymor, for cinema. […]

Is there anyone who hasn’t heard at least one of the preludes and fugues that make up Johann Sebastian Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier? Probably not! In 1722, 300 years ago, the Leipzig Cantor composed the first part of his famous Wohltemperierte Klavier (BWV 846-869). The second book (BWV 870-893) was published 22 years later, in 1744. […]