L'Etang est un texte de jeunesse que Walser offrit a sa soeur sous forme manuscrite. C'est la seule oeuvre que Walser ait ecrite en dialecte. Elle met en scene le suicide simule d'un adolescent, le jeune Fritz, qui ne se sent aime de personne et voudrait reconquerir l'amour de sa mere. Ce recit cle prefigure la creation future de Walser, maitre des retournements subtils.
Les vingt-quatre episodes de Felix, dialogues et monologues ecrits en 1925, sont issus des microgrammes. Quelques traits d'une psychologie raffinee depeignent avec humour l'eveil de la personne, sa rouerie distanciatrice dans l'affrontement avec les adultes et l'exercice de ses pouvoirs, les nuances de l'affirmation et de la conscience de soi. Le contenu biographique est evident, de meme que dans L'Etang.

Robert Walser (1878-1956) ecrit des sa jeunesse des poemes, de la prose et du theatre. Les breves scenes dramatiques, qui ont marque les debuts et la fin de sa carriere, sont frequemment representees aujourd'hui. Mais elles sont autant a lire qu'a jouer. Lire la suite Fermer

Reactionary winds are blowing through the United States.

They are driven by a minority of radical conservatives, that now imposes its views on a disagreeing majority. For decades, this minority has been methodically weaponizing a political and judicial system that works to its advantage. The recent series of regressive decisions rendered by the Supreme Court on abortion, notably, but also on gun control or climate change - against the will of society - is the culmination of this effort so far.

This outcome has been made possible by the country's institutional architecture, decrypted in detail by Ludivine Gilli. The author shows how the very design of the institutions, through representation in Congress, the electoral college, electoral redistricting, or the appointment of federal judges, has come to favor Republicans and how they have been using it in a growingly questionable way over the last decades, betraying democratic principles. As a result, democracy is currently in peril in the United States, and national harmony along with it.

Ludivine Gilli
is Director of the North America Observatory at the Fondation Jean Jaurès. A specialist of American history and politics, she has a PhD in American history from the Sorbonne and is a graduate of Sciences Po, the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Lire la suite Fermer

Reactionary winds are blowing through the United States.

They are driven by a minority of radical conservatives, that now imposes its views on a disagreeing majority. For decades, this minority has been methodically weaponizing a political and judicial system that works to its advantage. The recent series of regressive decisions rendered by the Supreme Court on abortion, notably, but also on gun control or climate change - against the will of society - is the culmination of this effort so far.

This outcome has been made possible by the country's institutional architecture, decrypted in detail by Ludivine Gilli. The author shows how the very design of the institutions, through representation in Congress, the electoral college, electoral redistricting, or the appointment of federal judges, has come to favor Republicans and how they have been using it in a growingly questionable way over the last decades, betraying democratic principles. As a result, democracy is currently in peril in the United States, and national harmony along with it.

Ludivine Gilli
is Director of the North America Observatory at the Fondation Jean Jaurès. A specialist of American history and politics, she has a PhD in American history from the Sorbonne and is a graduate of Sciences Po, the Paris Institute of Political Studies. Lire la suite Fermer