Eugène Ebodé, roots and canvases

The writer Eugène Ebodé publishes “Brûlant was the gaze of Picasso” with the Gallimard editions.

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In his new novel "Burning was the gaze of Picasso", Eugène Ébodé, tells the true and very romantic story of Mado nickname of Madeleine Petrasch, friend of the greatest artists such as Picasso, Matisse, Haviland, Soutine, Chagall, Masson and Dali.

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She is a child with long braids, almond eyes, raspberry skin.

A little girl born on the banks of the Sanaga, in western Cameroon, the loves of a Cameroonian servant and a Swedish expatriate won over by her beauty, Africa, her languages ​​and her forests.

A mestizo whose fate will be struck by the upheavals of the great history of the twentieth century - the Second World War, decolonization, the Spanish Civil War.

A girl who will become a mother, and who will experience the shock of exile, separation and uprooting, the difficulties and the tragedies, but also the reunion, the joys and the successes of a new life that will make her successful. invest for others, and meet - or even inspire - the greatest painters.

"Burning was the gaze of Picasso" by

Eugène Ebodé

 was published by Gallimard editions, in the “Continents Noirs” collection.

At the end of the program, the music chronicle of

Alain Pilot

.

He met Axel Moon and Niko Shin, from Ko Shin Moon who are releasing a new mini album “Miniature 1”, which explores different musical territories, from the Maghreb to India, and reconfigures the sound boundaries that we know.

Find the complete rules for the VMDN competition by following the link: → rfi.my/jeuVMDN.

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