Wednesday, February 9, 2011

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NOW, Lison EDWARD SLIP!

The following was published on Wednesday 9 February in the columns of the weekly "Les Inrockuptibles". Edouard Glissant passed away on February 3, leaving behind a huge work which makes him one of the most important thinkers of those times. It is now urgent to go to meet this piece that says the human condition with an accent of brotherhood immeasurable.

Edouard Glissant's work is the subject of symposia at universities worldwide. The author is revered in the United States who welcomed in 1989 as a teacher, first in Louisiana, then New York. His theory of "all-world," his "poetics of relation" and its dissection of the work of Faulkner authoritative.
His greatest echo in France? This is longstanding: he received the Prix Renaudot in 1956 for his first novel, The LĂ©zarde (Threshold). Otherwise, the writer remains highly sensitive in the Hexagon, published by Gallimard with fidelity. There was a little thrill when he published with Patrick Chamoiseau The uncompromising beauty of the world (Gilead, 2009), an "address for Obama." But this was not the work of Glissant we discovered. The U.S. election has sparked enthusiasm and questions on race and tolerance. The little booklet was maintained for several weeks in the bestsellers in France.
The public will always be a strong argument: the novels of the author is too steep, and recommends a sprawling preparing to enter this world of creation "chaotic". The author would therefore be stored in the prestigious circle of writers that we respect, we quote and we especially do not read. They murmured his name for the Nobel literature for decades. He waited, serene. But he chose his friends Walkott Derek, Wole Soyinka or Nadine Gordimer ...

They also say that the author had Martinique
disciples Patrick Chamoiseau, Raphael Confident , among others. No, he had no disciples. It was a Robinson Crusoe. He seemed very lonely. And then, over the past years parts scattered among the poems, novels and theoretical works have come together to create a set to light that could be described as one of the last intellectual daring of our time.

From his famous concept of Antillanité - deconstruction of the history of the West Indies under realities of race, language classes, social hierarchies on the one hand, and the recognition of a plural identity of the other - the writer was able to challenge the human race. We are linked, "he recalls, the" relationship ", and these are the encounters that shape our humanity constantly in motion. Know each other, tolerate each other: "I want to get you as far as that life can afford," he wrote in The Underground (Seuil, 1965). The Intention and poetic (Gallimard, 1997): "If the sands your shore you dig the sword in the other, clean and worry 'm a hoe. If the flaming sword in the hands of another, the hard, or task of uprooting to arm the other - provided that you - the same vow. This is the vow. "
This plural identity, Glissant calls the identity rhizome. A quest that is found throughout his work, including through three novels essential ( The Fourth Century, and Malemort The Case of the Commander ) and in his essays the most studied (Poetics the Relatio n The Caribbean Speech, Treaty the All- world, The Intention poetic ), all published by Gallimard.

The fact remains that as a thinker rather than as a novelist Slippery may remain in our memories. Unless we keep us separate these two fields. In thought as in fiction, there is a link: the world. And this world as a whole.

Alain Mabanckou
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Text published in "Les Inrockuptibles ", February 9, 2011

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