Ce qui est pour toi, la rivière ne l'emporte pas | Viktor Lazlo

Ce qui est pour toi, la rivière ne l'emporte pas

EAN : 9782221273173

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 240

Size : 135 x 215 mm

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What is yours, the river will not take it away

Viktor Lazlo

Release date : 25/01/2024

“When I was finally ready to write a new chapter of my inquiry into the history of slavery and the era which made the fortunes of some and the misfortunes of others, I wanted to start this chapter on Martinique, the island of which I know every nook and cranny... “When I was finally ready to write a new chapter of my inquiry into the history of slavery and the era which made the fortunes of some and the misfortunes of others, I wanted to start this chapter on Martinique, the island of which I know every nook and cranny with my eyes closed, its rivers, vegetation and changing, unexpected skies I so often dream about, this island that still withholds so many secrets and so many stories yet to be told. I knew that the narrator would be a woman, a woman in whose name would echo oblivion. Oblivion of humanity itself throughout centuries of dehumanization and ravages, of impossible childhoods and mutilated family trees. She would be called Olvidia – olvidar means ‘to forget’ in Spanish.
I did not know what would be her journey. But then, I came across a pen drawing by Nicolas-André Monsiau, a society artist of the Poussin school, a true revelation! The drawing shows the French revolutionary Danton extending his arms towards the MPs from Saint-Domingue to announce that slavery had been abolished by decree as of August 29th 1793. To his right, dominating the scene from up on her throne, an ageless, statuesque woman of color, impassible in the midst of the tumultuous scene at the assembly. There and then, I knew that she would be my heroine and that her story simply had to unfold, leading her up to this culminating moment of her existence she had longed for such a long time. I simply had to write it”.
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EAN : 9782221273173

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 240

Size : 135 x 215 mm

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