Title: July to countries
Author: Michele Rakotoson
Publisher: Elytis (Bordeaux)
Genre: Chronicle
The book that the Centre Francophone de Bourgogne present, this month, is original in more ways than one. Original paper used the novel format (17x 24), well-chosen reproductions of old postcards and stamps at the time, welcomed the
Rabearivelo quotes the poet or other evidence of a genuine culture of Madagascar. It is not just a chronicle, but a souvenir book, a history book, a book museum, a family memory book.
After 19 years of exile in France, Michèle Rakotoson who had fled the dictatorship in 1983, returned to Madagascar in July 2002.
Being accustomed to life in Paris, having fantasized on the Big Island, adorned the country, dreaming of a reunion of Eden, on his arrival, the shock is overwhelming. Therefore, Antananarivo, the capital, Ambohitantely, the city of her grandparents on the Central Highlands, the sight of towns and villages, streets, buildings, vehicles, fields, listening to confessions, pleas for help, the reality is immediately eyes, the country she loves, is sinking into poverty. And the terms are clear: stigma, victims, arms dangling, drought, poverty, misery, compassion, barren, dirt, chaos ...
Rakotoson But Michele is a writer and writers are the people of the time. And uncompromising, it means responsible for such a decay: the colonization French bloodthirsty and predatory for a century (how the homeland of human rights she may have committed the heinous atrocities of 1947?), the grip of France after independence, dictatorships, corruption, the antics West, the decay of the state, globalization and other ultra-liberalism, suicidal ukase of the World Bank and IMF.
His return can not be reduced to a simple return to the country is also a return to his origins, his clan, her family, her family memories. As for the country, the memory of her family lies in tatters in the damp and rats, the bottom of a remission. Merina well, she lets her emotions seem little, but the pain is there, crude, unfair, oppressive, like a blow to the stomach, sweating. How to empathize with the pain of his ancestors by reading the remaining books? How people can be built if nothing is kept in its history? Camus said that " poverty has no history " and Michele Rakotoson discovered and voice their anger with words, words but with what words to tell the truth ?
Chronicle of a return is a great book as a chant insistent that expresses pain and suffering and also hope, as the author knows that the Malagasy are courageous, determined, as history has proven. But as things change!
Style, fair, concise, precise, intimate tone as if in a dream awake. Tales of a return is the story of a great writer like Notebook of a return home . Back
between violence and gentleness, self control and anger, suggestions or termination, discouragement and lucid analysis, between humanity and hope. Book of great depth and dignity.
Citation
"To survive in the West ... the effectiveness dummy, I hung up with all my strength to this piece of land that I created, recreated, adapted to all my moods, refusing to m 'root elsewhere, which otherwise could have been with me ... this place resembles the country wanted, but it is not. What place for death and eternity? "
Author: Michele Rakotoson
Publisher: Elytis (Bordeaux)
Genre: Chronicle
The book that the Centre Francophone de Bourgogne present, this month, is original in more ways than one. Original paper used the novel format (17x 24), well-chosen reproductions of old postcards and stamps at the time, welcomed the
Rabearivelo quotes the poet or other evidence of a genuine culture of Madagascar. It is not just a chronicle, but a souvenir book, a history book, a book museum, a family memory book. After 19 years of exile in France, Michèle Rakotoson who had fled the dictatorship in 1983, returned to Madagascar in July 2002.
Being accustomed to life in Paris, having fantasized on the Big Island, adorned the country, dreaming of a reunion of Eden, on his arrival, the shock is overwhelming. Therefore, Antananarivo, the capital, Ambohitantely, the city of her grandparents on the Central Highlands, the sight of towns and villages, streets, buildings, vehicles, fields, listening to confessions, pleas for help, the reality is immediately eyes, the country she loves, is sinking into poverty. And the terms are clear: stigma, victims, arms dangling, drought, poverty, misery, compassion, barren, dirt, chaos ...
Rakotoson But Michele is a writer and writers are the people of the time. And uncompromising, it means responsible for such a decay: the colonization French bloodthirsty and predatory for a century (how the homeland of human rights she may have committed the heinous atrocities of 1947?), the grip of France after independence, dictatorships, corruption, the antics West, the decay of the state, globalization and other ultra-liberalism, suicidal ukase of the World Bank and IMF.
His return can not be reduced to a simple return to the country is also a return to his origins, his clan, her family, her family memories. As for the country, the memory of her family lies in tatters in the damp and rats, the bottom of a remission. Merina well, she lets her emotions seem little, but the pain is there, crude, unfair, oppressive, like a blow to the stomach, sweating. How to empathize with the pain of his ancestors by reading the remaining books? How people can be built if nothing is kept in its history? Camus said that " poverty has no history " and Michele Rakotoson discovered and voice their anger with words, words but with what words to tell the truth ?
Chronicle of a return is a great book as a chant insistent that expresses pain and suffering and also hope, as the author knows that the Malagasy are courageous, determined, as history has proven. But as things change!
Style, fair, concise, precise, intimate tone as if in a dream awake. Tales of a return is the story of a great writer like Notebook of a return home . Back
between violence and gentleness, self control and anger, suggestions or termination, discouragement and lucid analysis, between humanity and hope. Book of great depth and dignity.
Citation
"To survive in the West ... the effectiveness dummy, I hung up with all my strength to this piece of land that I created, recreated, adapted to all my moods, refusing to m 'root elsewhere, which otherwise could have been with me ... this place resembles the country wanted, but it is not. What place for death and eternity? "
Rakotoson Michele was born in Antananarivo in 1948. In a cultured family (father journalist, mother a librarian), marked by the strict Protestantism, she studied at the Lycee Jules Ferry, Antananarivo obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Madagascar.
A time literature teacher, she was forced into exile in 1983 for political reasons. In Paris, she spent a postgraduate degree in sociology and became a journalist at RFI and RFO. RFI and assigned by the new French competition.
Producer, writer of plays, as his paternal grandmother, writer, activist book, Michele Rakotoson is all fights: against racism and social injustice, against the degradation of the planet, against authoritarianism political against violations of Human Rights.
His work often focuses on Madagascar mentions AIDS, the approach of death, human relationships. His intimate style rather revisits what is deepest in humans
Witness indefatigable, she has traveled the world and marked her audiences of her passionate response.
Back home, she now devotes himself to the revival of the edition of Madagascar.
A time literature teacher, she was forced into exile in 1983 for political reasons. In Paris, she spent a postgraduate degree in sociology and became a journalist at RFI and RFO. RFI and assigned by the new French competition.
Producer, writer of plays, as his paternal grandmother, writer, activist book, Michele Rakotoson is all fights: against racism and social injustice, against the degradation of the planet, against authoritarianism political against violations of Human Rights.
His work often focuses on Madagascar mentions AIDS, the approach of death, human relationships. His intimate style rather revisits what is deepest in humans
Witness indefatigable, she has traveled the world and marked her audiences of her passionate response.
Back home, she now devotes himself to the revival of the edition of Madagascar.
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