Sélections

“You really should read Proust, it’s magnificent!”“But nobody cares about Proust!”“Never read it, I only know the famous madeleine!”“Proust… it’s an inimitable style, it’s 300 pages to talk about a bedroom!” Such were the reactions I received from my colleagues when preparing this article! Marcel Proust’s work seems to fascinate, bore or intimidate… in any […]

400 years ago, Jean-Baptiste Poquelin dit Molière, one of France’s most illustrious comedians and playwrights, was born in Paris. We are taking this opportunity to pay tribute to him through a selection of documents, on display in the Agora of the BCUL, site Riponne, until January 2023. The selection is also available on eLectures. Why […]

Photograph by Gaston Cherpillod, late 1930sFonds photographique Gustave Roud / Subilia, IS 5336-03971 The Gustave Roud / Subilia photographic collection is now available on Patrinum, and to better situate this poet and photographer, we spoke to Stéphane Pétermann, researcher at the Centre des littératures en Suisse romande (CLSR) and president of theAssociation des Amis de […]

Is what seems obvious to me obvious to most people? Are my intuitions reliable? For Florian Cova, Assistant Professor in the Philosophy Department at the University of Geneva, “these are two questions that cannot be answered directly by philosophical speculation, but which call for empirical investigation. This is why, over the last twenty years or […]

Arthur Conan Doyle disguised as George Edward Challenger, main character in The Lost World, published in 1912. Writer Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930) is best known for creating the character of Sherlock Holmes, but there’s much more to his work – and even more to his life. The Sir Arthur Conan Doyle fonds (IS 4314), held […]

With the aim of promoting the musical heritage of the Canton of Vaud, La Phonothèque offers you thematic and occasional playlists of historical and new works. Not only will you find the musicians and groups you love, but you’ll also be able to make some great discoveries! All musical genres are represented: classical music (composers […]