This site follows a private site I ran on Hautetfort for several years, first created for my students.

New articles will be published regularly. A newsletter will be launched soon for updates.

This site is not about literature.

The books mentioned here, you may never read — and that is not the point. What matters is what books can do to those who let themselves be reached by them.

We read for many reasons. A book matters only through the transformation it can provoke. Some books — quietly, sometimes belatedly — change a life.

This site is about that movement. About what shifts inside us when something is read, written, or simply attended to with enough honesty.

Reading, here, is not a matter of opinion or technique, but of attention. Writing is not treated as performance or expertise, but as a way of becoming real.

Books do not give answers. They change the way we inhabit the world. Clarity. Attention. Courage. And also something harder to name: a way of saying yes to life without denying it — even when it is rough.

That sentence matters to me.

I’m not writing from theory. What matters to me here comes from lived experience — as a reader first, as a writer who has learned that writing can be something other than performance, and as someone who has seen how attention, when it is honest, can quietly reorient a life.

I don’t want to approach books to judge them, classify them, or explain them. I approach them as places one can enter — sometimes slowly, sometimes all at once — and come out changed, without always knowing how or why.

I choose to write from that place. Not as a critic. Not as a teacher. Not as a guide.

This space is for readers, writers, and seekers who sense that transformation does not announce itself loudly, but leaves traces — sometimes discreet, sometimes decisive — over time.

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