Title : Baroque sarabande - Christiane Taubira - Book

Summary :

Christiane Taubira passionately recounts what she owes to literature and great authors

"Whatever you seek to know or feel, to understand or perceive, to grasp or glimpse, somewhere a book answers your quest. By providing pleasure, voluptuousness, bliss.
Read. All the energy, passion, well-being, and torment of a fiery life. " Ch. T.
In this fascinating book, Christiane Taubira pays tribute to the books and writers who shaped her. From her childhood in Cayenne—where young girls' reading was strictly controlled—to today, authors and their works parade past: Aimé Césaire, Léon-Gontran Damas, Gabriel García Márquez, René Char, Yachar Kemal, Simone Weil, Toni Morrison, and so many others...
Awakening her social conscience through committed novels, discovering the renewing power of language, rereading history thanks to the relevance of literature, calling on authors at the time of her great political speeches: Christiane Taubira recounts all that she owes to the infinite resources of books.
For isn't reading, this "ardent life", the best way to conquer one's freedom?

• EAN: 9782848766959
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