I write in Condé
Alexandra Reza, 12 May 2022
Crossing the Mangrove
by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox.
Penguin, 170 pp., £9.99, September 2021,978 0 241 53005 4 Show More
by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox.
Penguin, 170 pp., £9.99, September 2021,
Waiting for the Waters to Rise
by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox.
World Editions, 282 pp., £12.99, August 2021,978 1 912987 15 3 Show More
by Maryse Condé, translated by Richard Philcox.
World Editions, 282 pp., £12.99, August 2021,
L’Évangile du nouveau monde
by Maryse Condé.
Buchet Chastel, 287 pp., €20, September 2021,978 2 283 03544 3 Show More
by Maryse Condé.
Buchet Chastel, 287 pp., €20, September 2021,
“... aged sixteen, and enrolled at the prestigious Lycée Fénelon. It was there that she came across Aimé Césaire’s Cahier d’un retour au pays natal. Reading it was, she said, ‘a genuine mystic revelation’. The next day, she bought everything Césaire had written. The encounter with Négritude turned her from ... ”
