In the library with
Alain Mabanckou
Writer Alain Mabanckou opens up about his vision of literature as a way of embracing the world. The writer also evokes his father’s sacred relationship to books and how he passed on to his son his passion for literature.
Bibliographic record
Albert Cohen, Le livre de ma mère, © Gallimard, "Folio", 1974.
Albert Cohen, Book of My Mother, © Archipelago Books, 2012.
Le Tunnel, Ernesto Sabato, © Éditions du Seuil, 1982, Points, 1995, pour la traduction française.
Ernesto Sabato, The Tunnel, Translated by Ernesto Sabato and Margaret Sayers Peden, Penguin, 2011.
Albert Camus, La Peste, © Éditions Gallimard, 1972.
Albert Camus, The Plague, Penguin, 2020.
Avec l’aimable autorisation de la Succession Saint Exupéry – d’Agay © Le Petit Prince – 2023.
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince, © Harper Collins, 2000.
Cent ans de solitude, Gabriel García Márquez, © Éditions du Seuil, 1968, Points, 2022, pour la traduction française.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude, © Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 2006.
Ernest Hemingway, Le vieil homme et la mer, Traduction et préface par Philippe Jaworski, © Gallimard, "Folio", 2018.
Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea, Penguin, 1999.
Aimé Césaire, Cahier d’un retour au pays natal, © Présence Africaine Editions, 1956.
Aimé Césaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, c 2001 by Clayton Eshleman and Annette Smith. Published by Wesleyan University Press.
Maryse Condé, Ségou, Tome I : Les murailles de terre, © Pocket, 2002. Maryse Condé, Ségou, Tome II : La Terre en miettes, © Pocket, 2003.
Maryse Condé, Segu, Penguin, 2017.
© Daniel Thierry / Photononstop
Charles Baudelaire, Les Fleurs du mal, 1857.
Charles Baudelaire, The Flowers of Evil, 1857
John Steinbeck, Des souris et des hommes, Trad. française d’Agnès Desarthe, © Éditions Gallimard, 1939 (pour la traduction française).
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men, Penguin, 2002.
John Steinbeck, Les raisins de la colère, Trad. française de Maurice-Edgar Coindreau et Marcel Duhamel, © Éditions Gallimard, 1947 (pour la traduction française).
John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath, Penguin, 2017.
Amos Tutuola, L'ivrogne dans la brousse, Trad. française de Raymond Queneau, © Éditions Gallimard, 1953 (pour la traduction française).
The Palm-Wine Drinkard © Amos Tutuola, 1952. Published in English in the UK by Faber & Faber Ltd and in French by Editions Gallimard.
Marcel Proust, À la recherche du temps perdu, 1913 et 1927.
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time, 1913 et 1927.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quichotte, 1605 et 1615.
Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote, 1605 et 1615.
Dino Buzzati, Le K, Laffont, © Dino Buzzati Estate, Publié en accord avec The Italian Literary Agency.
Dino Buzzati, The Colomber, © Dino Buzzati Estate, Publié en accord avec The Italian Literary Agency, 1967.
Camara Laye, L'Enfant noir, © Pocket, 2009.
THE DARK CHILD by Camara Laye, translated by James Kirkup, Ernest Jones, and Elaine Gottlieb. Copyright © 1954, renewed 1982 by Camara Laye. Reprinted by permission of Hill and Wang, a division of Farrar, Straus and Giroux.
Percival Everett, The Trees,
© Graywolf Press, 2021.
© Booker Prize Foundation.
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