Read-A-Thon - Reading Night 2022

Day 1 - Monday, 17 January 2022

•  Read the text of the day by Alice Munro

" A little, a lot, passionately, madly, not at all "Munro, Alice. [Paris] : Éditions de l'Olivier. DL 2019 Cote : 823.914 MUN

Alice Munro is a Canadian author born in 1931. She won the Nobel Prize for Literature on 10 October 2013, becoming the thirteenth woman to receive the award.

Day 2 - Tuesday, 18 January 2022

• Read the text of the day by Eva Illouz

" Why love hurts "Illouz, E., & Joly, F. T. (2014). Why love hurts. Cote : 306.7 ILL

Eva Illouz is director of studies at EHESS and a specialist in the sociology of feelings and culture. Discover here an extract from her 2012 book "Why love hurts".

Day 3 - Wednesday, 19 January 2022

• Read the text of the day by Jane Austen

" Pride and Prejudice "Austen, Jane. Paris: Éditions Stock. 1947 Cote : 823.7 AUS

Jane Austen was an English novelist of the early 19th century. Most of her novels deal with women's views on love and, above all, their relationship to marriage, which for women of the time represented a means of achieving social status and economic security.

Day 4 - Thursday, 20 January 2022

• Read the poem of the day by Anna Akhmatova

"Poèmes épars et fragments" Akhmatova, Anna Andreevna. Corbières: Harpo &. DL 2019. Cote : 891.71 AKH

Anna Akhmatova is one of the greatest Russian poets of the 20th century. She mainly dealt with subjects such as the status of creative women, life under the Stalinist regime and nostalgia, but she also wrote some very pretty pieces about love, of which here are two.