Published on April 26, 2024 at 06:15. / Modified on April 26, 2024 at 06:49.
Constellations
What are the stars that guide or mark them, the major encounters, the personalities that fascinate them… Find the constellations of our guests.
He once said that reading is a political fight; moreover, it seems, through the modesty of his words, to have largely saved his existence. From now on, Augustin Trapenard devotes his days and nights to transmit this saving power. As brilliant as he is friendly, he offers the same generous humanity on the terrace of a café as to the authors he highlights every week in The big bookstore on France 5. But this time, the person who spends more than six hours a day in the silence of reading must talk about himself, an exercise that he says he doesn’t like much. We believe it. Luckily, evoking its constellations is more of an allocentric exercise, which inspires it. Met the day before an evening for the benefit of the Bibliothèques sans frontières association, which he has sponsored for six years, the journalist even seems happy to talk about the other side of his existence: trips in every free time to accompany and support the multiple projects of this NGO which aims to strengthen the power to act of the most vulnerable. “It’s very precise, very effective long-term work, and in my opinion, often visionary,” he praises. Books change the world? He believes it. “Otherwise, I would not have made it my job, my career, my life,” he smiles. Review of those who wear it.
Michèle, the structuring grandmother
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