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Professor at Paris Cité (comparative literature), directs the "Littérature, histoire, politique" collection (Garnier). Recent books: La littérature en suspens (2015). Le Mal de vérité ou l'utopie de la mémoire (2015). In co-edition: Traverser les limites ; G.-A. Goldschmidt et La tâche poétique du traducteur (2020) ; Syrie.
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“No literature has ever toppled a regime intent on extermination. What it does do, however, is help us resist normalization and indignity within ourselves.”
- Interview with Catherine Coquio,
- conducted by Jean-Marie Durand
In Nectart (2026/1 n° 22)
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The Emergence of Non-Writers’ “Literature”: Testimonies of Historical Disasters
In Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France (2003/2 Vol. 103)
“No literature has ever toppled a regime intent on extermination. What it does do, however, is help us resist normalization and indignity within ourselves.”
- Interview with Catherine Coquio,
- conducted by Jean-Marie Durand
In Nectart (2026/1 n° 22)
Memories of “the Camps” in Europe: Deaf Ears and Cross-Purposes
In Hermès, La Revue (2008/3 No 52)
Cairn Talk with Catherine Coquio
The politicization of memory and the crisis of truth: transmission, testimony and literature
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“No literature has ever toppled a regime intent on extermination. What it does do, however, is help us resist normalization and indignity within ourselves.”
- Interview with Catherine Coquio,
- conducted by Jean-Marie Durand
In Nectart (2026/1 n° 22)
“Us”
In Tumultes (2018/2 n° 51)
World zero, acceleration and enmity
With and against catastrophy
In Esprit (2018/12 December)
De Transe au Moulin du diable : Fouad Boussouf et la Compagnie Massala Entretien avec Fouad Boussouf
Memories of “the Camps” in Europe: Deaf Ears and Cross-Purposes
In Hermès, La Revue (2008/3 No 52)
The Emergence of Non-Writers’ “Literature”: Testimonies of Historical Disasters
In Revue d’histoire littéraire de la France (2003/2 Vol. 103)
