Toni Morrison's ultimate essay, The Source of Self-Regard , will appear in French on October 3 under the title The Source of Self-Esteem , AFP learned Wednesday from its publisher.
"Christian Bourgois Publisher will publish The Source of Self-Regard under the title The Source of Self-Esteem , translated by Christine Laferrière.The release is scheduled for October 3, 2019," said Clément Ribes, editorial director of Christian Bourgois, the publishing house that made known the novelist's work to French-speaking readers.
A tribute to writer James Baldwin
Published in February in the United States, the last essay of the writer disappeared in the night from Monday to Tuesday at the age of 88, addresses the political and social issues of today (emancipation of women, the place of minorities in American society, the role of money and the media, racism and xenophobia ...) but also the question of artistic and especially literary creation.
Novelist Nobel Prize in Literature Renders Martin Luther King and Honors James Baldwin (1924-1987), One of America's Greatest 20th Century Writers and Civil Rights Activist to exile in France in the late 1940s to flee racism in his country.
In this essay, she also takes a critical look at her work and that of other artists such as the painter Romare Bearden (1911-1988), the documentary filmmaker and civil rights activist Toni Cade Bambara (1939-1995) or the director. Peter Sellars scene. According to its American publisher, Penguin Random House, Toni Morrison's essay is "a brilliant and essential addition to the work" of the writer.