The leading French publishers are calling for more literary programs on television. They published a collective tribune in the newspaper Le Monde entitled: "The book must return to television". Among the signatories are the patrons of Gallimard, Plon, Albin Michel, Seuil, Flammarion, Grasset, Calmann-Lévy, Folio, POL, Stock, JC Lattès, Robert Laffont, and Acte Sud.
"It's a warning cry"
A joke to express their distress at the slaughter that hit the literary magazines on the public service in the fall: suppression of emissions In which eta-management (France 2), Books and you (Public Senate) and Free admission (France 5). There is only one survivor left: François Busnel and La grande librairie sur France 5. "It's a warning cry," says Héloïse d'Ormesson, president of Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson, in Culture médias on Europe 1. "Three broadcasts deleted in three months, it deserves that one stops there, "she says.
"The writer and the reader are endangered species"
So is it necessary to reinvent literary programs, or has the era simply changed? The writer Laurent Seksik is rather pessimistic. "The times have changed, the writer and the reader are endangered species, the writer, the reader and the literary show host belonged to a world that needs slow, to go to the bottom. things, backwards from this current universe where the law of immediacy and the dematerialized reigns ", estimates the author of the book The last days of Stefan Zweig .
Héloïse d'Ormesson, is more optimistic. "Yes the time is changing, but stories, everyone wants to hear and discover," she says at the microphone of Europe 1. "The book can decipher the world. 'we must preserve,' says the president of Editions Héloïse d'Ormesson.