Great interview with Christiane Taubira, woman of letters and politician (part 2)
Christiane Taubira in studio at RFI (October 2021).
© Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI
By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint
2 min
Exceptional meeting, in two parts, with Christiane Taubira, former Minister of Justice and Keeper of the Seals.
Author of numerous books, essays, novels, stories which have been very successful, including "Gran Balan", "Nuit épine", Christiane Taubira has just published her first collection of short stories which appears under the title "
These pieces of life ... like broken tiles
”, published by Robert Laffont.
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These pieces of life ... like broken tiles © Robert Laffont
"
You can't imagine the pleasure we derive from dissecting your faults and vices when we are among women. It is our alienation, our masochistic addiction, our confused and confused revenge, our bitter consolation and our grieving joy. that, in spite of our bravado, we are still quite subservient. Our noisy professions of independence? Boasting!
Here, a battered woman who dares everything to escape the company of men.
There, a pitiful old school principal who remembers a petty revenge taken on life.
Here again, a female choir which confides bloody sections of its family history, between slavery, marooning and duty of memory ...
No matter the time, everyone struggles for their freedom, to get rid of a tied up, thwarted destiny, or a disappointed love, and, sometimes, to accept their own end.
This collection of short stories, carried by a realistic and poetic language, lyrical and unique, depicts these pieces of life, like broken tiles, which each in their own way offer a window on the world. "(Presentation
by Robert Laffont editions
)
Report:
meeting with Marie Darrieussecq and Constance Debré, two French writers who take part in the inaugural season of the
Villa Albertine
, a new cultural institution from France to the United States which invites 80 residents from various artistic disciplines in ten cities throughout the country.
Visual Villa Albertine Fallen Tree by Benjamin Graindorge (France 1980 and Ymer & Malta 2018) © Beowulf Sheedan
Visual Villa Albertine Fallen Tree by Benjamin Graindorge (France 1980 and Ymer & Malta 2018) © Beowulf Sheedan
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