Fiction Prescriptions
Great novels offer insights into the human condition but can they also be tools for living? Co-hosts Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy provide bibliotherapy in our new podcast series. Each month listeners can write in with their dilemmas and our dynamic duo will suggest remedies for the head and heart, drawn from novels, poetry and prose collections.
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The state of the world
Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy
"Fiction is a great way of exploring the state of the world because only fiction gives you the opportunity of stepping in someone else's skin."
Ella and Isabelle reflect on, and provide prescriptions for, the state of the world. How can fiction help us to understand what we are living through, how to handle it and continue to fight for values, for a world we want to live in?
Love
Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy
"The Western world has been promoting that that is what romantic love is: fusion and isolation. And it doesn't work."
What’s the importance of love in relationships? Is it overrated? How does it survive displacement? How is it lost or found? Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy dive into novels and offer literary prescriptions.
New Year’s resolutions
Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy
"Bibliotherapy for the head and heart."
Concerned about your New Year’s resolutions, the folly of making them, the impossibility of keeping them? Ella Berthoud and Isabelle Dupuy dive into novels and offer literary prescriptions.