These two American authors will take you on a journey for this literary season

These are two authors, two works, two books that everything, at first glance, separates, but that the essential unites. Lauren Groff, 46, was born and raised on the east coast of the United States, but now lives in Florida. Fascinated, as a child, by the Bible and its fables, she explores, book after book, the strength (of solidarity and nuisance) of communities, questions the place of women in human societies and questions our need for transcendence.

Originally from Oregon, Rachel Kushner, 56, studied literature when she was younger with Jonathan Franzen, and was discovered in France in 2015, thanks to the novel “Les Lance-flammes” and