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These writers who maintain epistolary correspondence

2022-10-02T07:18:52.916Z


TESTIMONIALS - With the progressive disappearance of the handwritten letter, each correspondence takes on a considerable value to which writers are attentive.


Fanatical, impulsive, or lending themselves to the exercise on the advice of their teacher, the archetype of the person who writes does not exist.

"It's rare to receive a letter from someone young"

, observes the novelist Tatiana de Rosnay, when the philologist and philosopher Barbara Cassin explains that it often happens to her to have in her hands the missive of a student. foreign.

The same goes for people who take up the pen.

This is at least the observation made by the writer Édouard Bureau of his first exchanges.

“There are people who ask questions, others who simply rejoice in the book, and others for whom the book exerts the power of a Proust madeleine”

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The work of the writer inspires as much testimonies of admiration as the most intimate confidences.

Also, Tatiana de Rosnay remembers with emotion this letter stained with tears received from a man concerned by the theme addressed in one of his works.

A tender manifestation among others, that neither a few…

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Source: lefigaro

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