Ce que peut la littérature (What literature can do) is the first volume of a series which groups together the best broadcasts on literature from Radio France Culture’s literary programme « Répliques ». The current collection’s central theme is the power of literature: how can writers change the world, not in the sense intended by Sartre, that is, through their political involvement, but through their ability to reorganise our perception of the world and its creatures, our values, our present and our future. Through literature, it is thus our very existence that is transformed.

The book will be prefaced by an unpublished essay by Alain Finkielkraut.

List of chapters :
La place des poètes, by Jacques Roubaud and Jacques Garelli
Aharon Appelfeld, écrivain du silence, by Geneviève Brisac and Valérie Zenatti
Le pouvoir du roman, by Mona Ozouf and Pierre Manent
Le cas Aragon, by Daniel Bougnoux and François Taillandier
Céline l'infréquentable, by Jean-Pierre Martin and Philippe Sollers
Joseph Roth romancier européen, by Claudio Magris and Jean-Pierre Maurel
Albert Camus : le premier homme, by Suzanne Julliard and Bertrand Visage
Barthes et le roman, by Antoine Compagnon and Eric Marty
Le goût des classiques, by Marc Fumaroli and Thomas Pavel
Boris Pasternak poète et romancier, by Pierre Pachet and Michel Aucouturier
33 Newport Street, by Jean-Claude Passeron, Claude Grignon