Mental landscapes

For the new year

– Do you want to live together for many years, loving each other, without having children? I approve of you with all my heart. Tell me the reasons. – To have no remorse … – Good. Specify better. – Not to add to the pain and shame of the world. So that there isn’t someone Continue

Migrants and sermons

For their reading, the survival of daily newspapers rests on well-turned-over insights, on-site correspondents and, above all, on topics of general interest.Themes always reiterated, even without the support of the news. One of these is numerical immigration, we don’t count its branches. But what do we want? Wars are not waged to move borders – Continue

Marguerite Yourcenar

NOTEBOOKS This book was conceived, then written, in whole or in part, in various forms, between 1924 and 1929, between my twenties and twenty-five years. Those manuscripts have all been destroyed. They deserved to be. Found in a volume of Flaubert’s correspondence, much read, much emphasized around 1927, the unforgettable sentence: “When the gods were Continue