Documentary resources
VIDEOS
• Reading
• Interviews
→ Debate " The end of the novel ? " with Catherine Rey and Frédéric Ciriez, writer and teacher at the creative writing school Les Mots, led by Olivier Vojetta, writer (Sydney - Paris - 2021)
→ Gazebo Books - Catherine Rey in conversation with Pr Catharine Lumby (Sydney - 2018)
→ Red Room Poetry -The Wordshed - Catherine Rey in conversation with Andrew Riemer (Sydney- 2007)
• Emissions
→ France 3 – "Un Livre, un jour", Olivier Barrot receives Catherine Rey for his book Ce que racontait Jones (Paris - 2011)
→ France 3 – "Un Livre, un jour", Olivier Barrot receives Catherine Rey for his book Une femme en marche (Paris - 2007)
→ France 3 – "Un Livre, un jour", Olivier Barrot presents the book Lucy, like dogs (Paris - 2001)
LITERARY REVIEWS
• The Lovers:
- “In the picture. The lovers”, Susan Wyndham, Look Magazine, 04/2018
- “Relationships caught in the creative life”, Diane Stubbings, Australian Weekend, 04/2018
- “A nuanced thriller with plenty to say,” Catherine Ford, The Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 04/ 2018
• Stepping Out:
- “A manifesto of the artist as a young woman”, Dorothy Johnston, Sydney Morning Herald, 11/2008
• A woman walking:
- “Words to save face”, Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde, Nov 07
- “A woman on the move”, Fayçal Charif, South West, 11/2007
- “A feather in the village”, South West, 11/2007
- “At the end of oneself”, Air France Madame, Isabelle Potel, 11/2007
- “A woman: The essential book”, Libre Belgique supplement, Sept 2007 “Organ donor”
Michael Zumkir
A walking woman:
- “The creative anger of Catherine Rey”, Gérard Guidier, South West 11/2007
- “Writer of the week, Catherine Rey, character”, Christiane Poulin, South West Sunday, 03/1994
- “The CR writer unveils his universe”, with Jean-Claude Falet, Sud Ouest, 10/2010
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• The Spruiker's Tale:
- “Books of the year”, Weekend Australian, Ingrid Wassenaar, 12/2005
- “Tumbleweed tales”, Ingrid Wassenaar, Time Literary Supplement, 08/2005
- “Grim hilarity with life's wicked farce”, James Ley, The Age, 05/2005
- “Emotional acrobatics”, Susan Wyndham, Sydney Morning Herald, 05/2005
- “Yes, of the never never”, Sally Blakeney, The Bulletin, 06/2005
- “Family Freak show”, Stella Clarke, Weekend Australian, 05/2005
- “Deeps, dark tale holds Rey”, Bron Sibree, The West Australian, 11/2005
- “Darkness in the dust and sequins”, Kerryn Goldsworthy, Sydney Morning Herald, Spectrum, 05/2005
• What Jones was saying:
- “Attention talent”, Fnac.com-Livres, interview Frédéric Ciriez, 2003
- “A true romantic breath”, Attention talent, Fnac, September 2003
- “Circus novel and other acrobatics”, Pierre Maury, Le Soir, 10/03,
- “What Jones was saying”, Georges Guitton, Ouest France Sunday, 03/11
- “What Jones was saying”, Nathalie Crom, The Cross, 03/10
- “Ignomonie”, Gérard Oestreicher, Le Républicain Lorrain, 10/03
- “What Jones was saying”, Current Values, 03/10
- “What Jones was saying”, Claire Fleury, Le Nouvel Observateur, 03/10
- “What Jones was saying”, Sandrine Fillipetti, Rolling Stone, 03/10
- “The scary bush”, Gérard Pussey, Elle, 10/03
- “What Jones was saying”, Agnès Séverin, La Provence, 10/03,
- “What fate does this fallen star have in store for her centenarian husband? ”, Michel Grisolia, L’express, 10/03
- “The book of the day”, Christophe Henning, La voix du nord, 11/2003
- “Back to school novels”, Read: 12 excerpts, summer 2003 supplement
- “What Jones was saying”, Georges Guitton, West France, 11/2003
- “Magnolita, the tigress”, Dominique Mobailly, Christian testimony, 10/2003
- “History of Jones the Outline”, The Monitor, 09/2003
- “The freaks of the bush”, Franck Mannoni, The number of angels, 10/2003
- “Australia, what a circus”, Michel Vagner, Est Républicain, 10/2003
- “What Jones was saying”, Literary magazine, 11/2003
- “What Jones was saying”, Philippe Dufay, Madame Figaro, 10/2003
- “What a circus! ”, Christophe Mercier, Le Point 10/2003
- “Funny circus in Australia”, Michel Abescat, Telerama 11/2003
- “Back to school selection”, Anne Grignon, Nouvel Observateur, 10/2003
- “The circus of horrors”, Jean-Luc Douin, Le Monde, 08/2003
- “A sad circus of horrors, Catherine Rey stands out in French literature with this powerful novel”, Guy Duplat, La Libre Belgique, 09/2003
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• Lucy like the dogs:
- “The bad wind of the bush”, André Rollin, Le Canard Enchaîné, 01/2001
- “Lucy like the dogs”, Literalia, literaturas del mundo francofono, n°6, 2003
- “Story of an existential shipwreck”, Jean-Rémi Barland, Read, 01/2001
- “Back to basics”, interview Jean-Luc Terradillos, Actualité Poitou-Charente, n°53, 09/2001
- “Lucy like the dogs”, Hugo Marsan, the world, 11/2001
• Praise of oblivion:
- “The price of the seagulls crowns Praise of oblivion”, Patrick Guilloton, South West Sunday, 06/1997
• The close friend:
- “Catherine Rey, winner of the literary prize for the time of books, city of Cherbourg”, Manche Libre Hebdo, 10/1994
- “The territory of the father”, Christian Charrière, literary Figaro, 03/1994
- “I am not a writer of happiness”, La Lettre d'Aquitaine, interview, Emmanuelle Audinet, 04/1997
- “Catherine Rey, character”, writer of the week, Christiane Poulin, South West Sunday, 03/1994
- “The intimate friend”, Literary magazine, Claude Mourthé, 04/1994
ACADEMIC WORKS
• Thesis
• Seminar
• Critical articles
→ Professor Nathalie EDWARDS - University of Adelaide - Study of Une Femme en marche
→ Professor Helene JACCOMARD - University of Western Australia - Study of Lucy, comme les chiens
→ Professor Nathalie EDWARDS - University of Adelaide - “Narrating the self” in French-Australian writing
→ Professor Nathalie EDWARDS and Dr Christopher HOGARTH - Expanding multilingual Australian literature
TEXTS
→" Where do we write from ? ", text published in the survey " Is the style right-wing ? " of the Online Secousse#26, 06/2023 (Download the text - PDF)
→ Podcast made for the Australian release of the bookOn the Royal Road, by Elfriede Jelinek, Nobel Prize for Literature 2004, 02/2021 (Download the text - PDF)
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