Anne-Marie Garat, white spot and black anger
Portrait of the writer Anne-Marie Garat © Philippe MATSAS / Opale - Leemage: Actes Sud editions
By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
2 min
A visit to the Aquitaine Museum during an exhibition devoted to the slave trade, angered the novelist Anne-Marie Garat.
She decides with "Black Mood" to write the story of a dishonor difficult to assume.
She engages in a reflection that questions her intimate and conflicting relationship to the history of her birthplace: Bordeaux.
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Anne-Marie Garat
is an activist.
An activist of words and writing, reading and literature, but also wine, chocolate, photography and cinema.
She is also a teacher, a citizen, and a woman.
White, but capable of black anger.
Like the one who seizes Anne-Marie Garat one day while visiting the Aquitaine Museum, in her birthplace of Bordeaux, a city with which she maintains such complex relationships.
A few lines written on a cartel, during a visit to an exhibition on the slave trade.
From these few lines, she has made an object of combat for memory and truth, and a story in which we find her past and her passions, her freedom and her commitments, the evils of others and her own words.
“Black humor” by Anne-Marie Garat was published by Actes Sud.
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