Edouard Glissant, Author, Thomas C. Spear, Translator, Barbara Lewis, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-374-15392-2
Setting out to perform a ""fresh reading"" of Faulkner, Glissant, a Martinican novelist and poet (Black Salt), admirably avoids the verbal thickets of academic prose. His nonlinear, impressionistic critique, nevertheless, seems ready-made for the...
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Edouard Glissant, Author, Betsy Wing, Translator University of Nebraska Press $20 (294p) ISBN 978-0-8032-7083-1
West Indian writer douard Glissant addresses the turbulent, often tragic history of Martinique in The Fourth Century (trans. from the French by Betsy Wing). Seer and storyteller Papa Longou relays to young Mathieu B luse the story of their families,
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Édouard Glissant, trans. from the French by Betsy Wing, Univ. of Nebraska, $19.95 trade paper (224p) ISBN 978-0-8032-3479-6
Glissant's 1997 novel continues where The Fourth Century left off, tracing five decades in the lives of the Celat family on the beautiful, politically turbulent Caribbean island of Martinique. The novel opens with a newspaper article from the...
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