French Literature Reviews - 2026

Shame
Literary Theory, Linguistics and Stylistics

October release of issue no. 14 of Sigila

Shame - A vergonha

CONTENTS

- Preface by Pierre PACHET: Shame and Blushing

- Adam and Eve, Catacombs of Rome (photo)

- José Augusto SEABRA: O sol de Heráclito (poem)

- Charles BALADIER: Shame and Honour in Western European Languages

- Saint AUGUSTINE: Excerpt from Book XIV of The City of God

- Patrick AVRANE: A Woman No One Knows: The Secret of Shame

- Jean-François SOLAL: Transfer of Shame in Adolescence: Kafka's The Metamorphosis

- Lya TOURN: ¡Tierra, trágame!

- Bernard SESE: The Garden of Shame (poem)

- François-Michel DURAZZO: Octave, a Figure of Shame

- Stéphane JOUGLA: The Aesthetics of Shame

- Maria Alzira SEIXO: The Share of Fire: Shame, Sex, and Writing in António Lobo Antunes (Que Farei Quando Tudo Arde?)

- Jean-Jacques ROUSSEAU: Excerpt from The Confessions

- Ilda MENDES DOS SANTOS: On the Traveller's Blush, Under the Piercing Gaze of the World...

- Hania YANAT: The Shame of No Longer Being Kabyle

- Dorothée DUSSY: The Shame That Hides the Shame That Hides...

- Suzanne LALLEMAND: Love Secrets, Shame, and Family Status Among the Rural Mossi of Yatenga (Burkina Faso)

- Louis FLACH: Shame and the Shadow

- Guy SAMAMA: Shame Between Body and Soul

Anthology of Secrecy

- Luís de CAMÕES: Oh! Quão caro me custa o entender-te / Oh! How dearly I pay to understand you, transl. by Anne-Marie Quint
- Robert GARNIER: Hippolytus (excerpt)
- Jean de LA FONTAINE: The Raven and the Fox
- Alfred de MUSSET: October Night
- Alfred de VIGNY: The Death of the Wolf
- Charles BAUDELAIRE: Punishment of Pride

Reviews

- Fray LUIS DE LEON, Writings on Teresa of Ávila. Translated and introduced by Bernard Sesé, Arfuyen, 2004 (Mercedes Allendesalazar)

- A. MUÑOZ MOLINA, Sefarad, Seuil, 2003 (Bernard Sesé)

- BERDJOUHI, Days of Ash in Istanbul, Marseille, Éd. Parenthèses, 2004 (Laurence Motoret)

- Sebastian HAFFNER, Defying Hitler: A Memoir (Memoirs of a German, 1914–1933), Actes Sud, 2002 (Isabelle Baladier-Bloch)

- Dalila KERCHOUCHE, My Father, That Harki, Seuil, 2003 (Monique Le Moing)

- Lya TOURN, Path of Exile: Toward an Open Identity, Éditions Campagne Première, 2003 (Sylvie Sesé-Léger)

- Patrick AVRANE, The Child at the Psychoanalyst's, Éd. Louis Audibert, 2003 (Sylvie Sesé-Léger)

- Philippe GRIMBERT, Secret, Grasset, 2004 (Monique Le Moing)

- Bernard SESE, Discipline of the Arcane, Orbey, Les cahiers d'Arfuyen, 2004 (Dominique Samson Normand de Chanbourg)

Publications and News on Secrecy

Abstracts - Resumos - Résumés

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Publisher: Gris-France, 21, rue Saint-Médard - 75005 Paris
Issue published with the support of the Centre National du Livre and FASILD
ISBN: 2-912940-13-3
ISSN: 1286-1715

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This issue of Sigila, titled Shame - A vergonha, presents a collection of contributions dedicated to the theme of shame, bringing together essays, poetry, and historical excerpts by various authors such as Pierre Pachet, Saint Augustine, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau. The volume includes sections on contents, poetry, an anthology of secrecy, and reviews of works such as Fray Luis de León's Writings on Teresa of Ávila and A. Muñoz Molina's Sefarad. Published by Gris-France with the support of the Centre National du Livre and FASILD, the issue explores multiple perspectives on shame and secrecy across different cultural, literary, and psychological contexts.

The journal Sigila examines how hidden dimensions of human experience shape cultural and personal identity. Readers interested in comparative literary studies, cultural anthropology, or psychoanalytic approaches to texts may find this thematic issue relevant to their interests in affect and representation.