The Original 1939 Notebook of a Return to the Native Land: Bilingual Edition
A Literature, France, Classics book. A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle. Aim Csaire, Notebook of...
Aime Cesaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Cesaire's quest for negritude, and it became an anthem of Blacks around the world. Commentary on Cesaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and anticolonialist rhetoric--material that Cesaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, given here in French, and in its first English translation, reveals a work that is both spiritual and cultural in structure, tone, and thrust. This Wesleyan edition includes the original illustrations by Wifredo Lam, and an introduction, notes, and chronology by A....
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Do not make me into that man of hatred for whom I feel only hatred. Aim Csaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land // Beware, my body and my soul, beware above all of crossing your arms and assuming the sterile attitude of the spectator, for life is not a spectacle, a sea of griefs is not a proscenium, and a man who wails is not a dancing bear. Aim Csaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land // A man screaming is not a dancing bear. Life is not a spectacle. Aim Csaire, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land //
A true original, powerful and inspiring.His reliance on "the blowtorch of humor" in denouncing the effects of colonialism on his Caribbean island home (Martinique) is a clear indication that Csaire had also understood the corrosive poetics of Lautramont.The alexandrine is so culturally ingrained that the French ear picks it up unselfconsciously.[An... Aim Csaire is the father of Martinican literature. In his Cahier, he explores his roots in his native Martinique and looks with an often angry voice at the repression of his fellow islanders. The Cahier is a poem directed at enlightening the views of his fellow countrymen and giving them a point at which to resist their colonial masters,... A masterpiece. I'd like to read Eschleman's translation, as I read a different version.
