Edition Externum

Pectus publishing house, Košice 2008

With a genuine style compelling story, the author won Prix du Roman France Télévision 2000. Claudel has recieved several significant awards and he is nevertheless not lacking a human modesty. Deeply touched and surprised, he considers the fact of persisting interest about his work outside France to be a small miracle. So there is undoubtedly on the rightful place to acquaint his work the reading public in Slovakia. The story evokes as if an adult hero from novel by Salinger Catcher in the Rye.

Pectus publishing house, Košice 2007

Cossé brings in her every story the realistic view on the status of the writer in consumer society. Revealing its true face the author clearly indicates, that society is not adequately able to appreciate the creative work of writers, whereas royalty almost never reflect the value of literary work. Laurence Cossé is one of the significant writer of contemporary french prose. She could manage to collect the different stories with the same theme in one book, while every of the story having its individual style, using the specific language resources.