Tatiana de Rosnay, surveyor of memories and artificial intelligence

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The writer Tatiana de Rosnay is the guest of VMDN by telephone for her novel "The flowers of the shade", co-edited by Robert Laffont and the Héloïse d'Ormesson editions.

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2 years ago, in "Sentinelle de la Pluie", she imagined Paris under water. In her new novel, she imagines in the not too distant future, the French capital crushed by the heat wave and martyred by terrorism, but it is not the worst danger run by her heroine, a novelist who looks a little like her. Because everything is disturbing in this book which leads us into a world of secrets and lies, dreams and nightmares, surveillance and control. A book that also tells us about mother-daughter-and-little-girl relationships, the desire to write, the place of literature in our lives, the power of the imagination and the freedom of creation, through two giants of the twentieth century novel: Virginia Woolf and Romain Gary. “The flowers of the shade”, the new novel by Tatiana de Rosnay, is co-published by Robert Laffont and the Héloïse d'Ormesson editions.

Like every week, VMDN gives the floor to artists involved in the fight against covid19. Today Wednesday April 29, Lassy King Massassy is on the phone of Jean-François Cadet. This Malian artist touches everything, photographer, rapper, actor, slammer engages in a prevention campaign to fight against the spread of the coronavirus by posting short awareness videos every two days on social networks. Alone, facing the camera, he addresses his fans in Bamanankan.

The Conficulture column: how to keep bringing music to the hospital when it's no longer possible to go there? How to keep in touch with the sick? How to make sure that their daily life is not reduced only to illness? Well it is, like many artistic activities at the moment, thanks to the internet that associations and artists are mobilized. This is particularly the case for the Music association. Marjorie Bertin spoke for us with Philippe Bouteloup, President of this association.

To find out more about the association -> their facebook page and their youtube channel.

If some people start pacing while on the phone, others grab a pencil and start scribbling on a corner of the sheet. This is the case of the cartoonist Jochen Gerner. He gathered his phone drawing books in a book called Atelier , published by L'Association editions. Confined, like all artists, it was on the phone that Amélie Beaucour discussed it with him.

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