“I would be drenched by all rains, moistened by all dews. I would roll like frenetic blood on the slow current of the eye of words turned into mad horses into fresh children into clots into curfew into vestiges of temples into precious stones remote enough to discourage miners. Whoever would not understand me would not understand any better the roaring of a tiger.”
Remembering Aimé Césaire on his birthday.
Here are some #NotInEnglish picks! I was introduced to Belgian author Amelie Nothomb in a university French course years ago and fell in love with Metaphysiques Des Tubes. She has a wacky, unique imagination, a playful use of language and her writing has a dreamy, surreal feel to it that I love falling into. Many of her books have English translations; Metaphysiques Des Tubes is called The Character of Rain in English. #Francophone
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