Weaving memories, lives and utopia with Jean-Luc Raharimanana
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Jean-Luc Raharimanana presented his book “Tisser” in De Vive (s) Voix.
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By: Pascal Paradou
31 min
“Madagascar is a component of several cultures: one fiber comes from South Africa, another from India, Europe [...] We don't know where we really come from.
To weave
is that in my opinion: to admit that all points of the world have converged to make our own fabric, our culture ”.
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Jean-Luc Raharimanana
, poet, writer, playwright and visual artist, born in Madagascar, living in France, publishes
Tisser
with the
Mémoire d'Encrier
editions
.
Since 1989, he has started an immense work of memory.
Who are we ? What history, what memory, what language, what culture are we?
In this story, which is both poem and pamphlet, he seeks to answer these questions as existential as they are political.
Tisser
is a novel that is at once violent, lyrical and luminous, which reflects on the challenges of history and memories.
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