"New York likes neither to sit nor to lie down. It's a city that sleeps standing"
Jean Cocteau wrote a dazzling textual portrait of the city that never sleeps for the newspaper L'Aurore, after a twenty-day stay in New York.

As 2024 marks the 100th year anniversary of Kafka's passing, it is an ideal time to explore his writings and persona from a different perspective.

“Denoël [My publisher], the three little dots didn't appeal to him. Frightened, he was. Reproving. We were leaving good tradition, repudiating all form: it was no longer attached to anything... Ah, this time, my publisher was no longer ensuring the novel's success! He had to absolve himself of any responsibility. To walk away from the gambling table...
‘Dear Céline', he began, ‘I'm afraid you've made a mistake... Let's see, even for a man like you, there are limits, a measure to be kept!'
His features were severe, his gaze perplexed, his voice anguished (but very dignified). Brave Denoël! ‘My good friend, I warn you. And then there was something else. These passages were too daring, really too daring! Of course, art has its rights, but still...' ”