Sophie Rakhlanko, two autobiographies, one in Hebrew and the other in French
I am very curious to get to know people's lives. To get out of myself and see what others are doing with their lives. That's why I love to read...
“The New Novel”: A Work That Seeks Ways to Adapt to the Zeitgeist by Dr. Ily Rauner
About fifteen years ago, I sat in on a lecture by David Grossman upon the release of his book, A Woman Fleeing the Gospel (The New Library). Grossman emphasized...
Emily L.: A novel about love and loss, steeped in alcohol and madness
Marguerite Duras, Emily L., Les Editions de Minuit, 1987 Marguerite Duras, Emily L., from French: Rama Ayalon, Ruth Library, 2023 Written...
Imperial age through its connection to France
We all know about the deep ties of journalist and intelligence officer Gil Kessary to France (to date, six of his many articles on these topics have been published...
The Little Prince – A Little Boy and a Man Who Cares by Adi Ben Hur
The Little Prince – the character and the book – can be deceptive at first glance. The seemingly simple story of the boy prince, written by Count Antoine...
French poetry translated into Hebrew
Here you will find some of the greatest poems written in France and translated into Hebrew by an artist.
Poems written by the Francophile about Paris and other places
You may know me as a blogger who writes prose on French culture and tourism, but sometimes I also sin by writing poetry. Here...
Facing the Night / Delphine de Vigan
Mother of two children, partner of literary critic and host of the most successful literary television program in France – François Bonnell, writer Delphine...
Abelard and Heloise: Love Letters That Survived Nearly a Thousand Years
"I swear to God, if the ruler of the world, Emperor Augustus, were to honor me with marriage and grant me the world and its fullness forever, he would be more precious and honorable to me...
The Sleeper in the Valley / Arthur Rimbaud
This is a green female, in whom a peleg sings to him, who, like a madman, throws silvery shreds over the grass; in whom the sun, from the top of a proud mountain, shines: this is...
A Parisian Taste from the Book “Her Mother’s Loves” by Ravit Lifshitz Zion
Emma Klein has turned fifty. She is a career woman, an art curator, and the mother of a teenage son and daughter. She knows how to dress and is still beautiful, but she is already...
The Little Prince and Saint-Exupéry by Sarah Shoham
On the night of July 31, 1944, fighter pilot Saint-Exupéry took off for action against enemy German aircraft and has since disappeared. A German pilot reported a plane...
First chapter of “Big Hug” by Romain Gary (Emile Azhar)
In 1974, the novel A Big Hug by an unknown author named Emile Ajar was published in France and was a great success. The book tells the story of...
Bipolarity in the Soul and Poems of Charles Baudelaire
The tension within the human soul between two opposing poles is expressed throughout Baudelaire's work, who emphasizes this biographical fact in the famous sentences...
Interview with Roman Gary “The Double Writer”
This week, 37 years ago, the French-Jewish writer Romain Gary passed away at the age of 66. He is one of my favorite authors, thanks to his style and also...
Catherine Fancol, French success
A new novel by the successful French author, Katherine Pancol, is currently being published, an 850-page volume that weighs more than a kilo (1100 grams).
Michel de Montaigne The Journey to the Essays
“Do not read it like children – for amusement, nor like the ambitious – to be educated. No, read it to live.” Gustav...
On the novel “The Little Horses of Tarquinia” by Marguerite Duras
Reading the novel “The Little Horses of Tarquinia” brought about a turning point in the life of Jan, a young philosophy student, as I explained in my previous article: The Last Lover...
Marguerite Duras's Last Lover
Jan Andrea, Marguerite Duras's "last lover," was found dead in the one-room apartment the writer left him, in the sixth arrondissement of Paris, opposite her apartment...
Paul Verlaine, cursed poet
Paul Verlaine, one of the greatest French poets, was only 24 years old when the collection “Saturnian Poems” was published in 1866, which included “a poem...
The Lovers from the Island of Mauritius: Bernardin de Saint-Pierre and his book “Paul Virginie”
In many places on the island of Mauritius, there are reminders of the renowned work of Bernardin de Saint-Pierre, who is considered the father of the French Romantic movement and was a close friend...
The Sand Dunes of Paris by Edna Shemesh. Literary Review
Literary critic and author Edna Shemesh is a staunch Francophile, so it's no wonder that her first novel (which is, more accurately, her second book) takes place...
The legal troubles of French writer Regis Gioffret
Novelist's hat and crime reporter's hat Régis Jauffret is a 61-year-old French author, born in Marseille, who has won awards and been published, often...
“My dear madman, I love you!” – Victor Hugo’s Great Love
He was “Toto” to her, a great poet, writer, and philanthropist. She was “Jojo” to him, a poor actress who became the love of his life. From the beginning of the relationship...
Margot in the poems of Georges Bressance (and in French in general) by Ofer Gavish
Two poems were written by Georges Bressance, both of which deal with food, natural food, breast milk, but straight from the source... Both tell the story of a girl with...
Recipe for French fish soup from the book “A Journey of a Hundred Steps” by Shosh Itamar
The story of the recipe “A Journey of a Hundred Steps” tells of a young Indian boy who was born above his grandfather's humble restaurant in Mumbai, and experienced...
The Cursed Kings – The French Inspiration for Game of Thrones by Raz Greenberg
The historical source of inspiration for "A Song of Fire and Ice," as any beginning reader of the series with basic Google search skills knows, is...
A taste of the book “Orian” by Shira Pinkas
Soon I will be studying at the Sorbonne, a real university of centuries with philosophers and thinkers thinking between the walls, alongside the columns, arches and statues. After...