Suzanne Dracius

Mar 21, 2024 | wordswithoutborders.org | Jason Allen-Paisant |Suzanne Dracius |Alexander Aguayo

It’s December 2023. Amid the festive holiday buzz, I’m nestled inside my room in Thorigné-Fouillard, a small housing estate near Rennes, in Brittany, holding the CNRS/Présence Africaine edition of Aimé Césaire’s collected works. This volume, entitled Aimé Césaire: Poésie, Théâtre, Essais et Discours [Aimé Césaire: Poetry, Theatre, Essays and Speeches], is a definitive edition of Césaire’s multi-genre oeuvre, and a good number of its texts are yet to be translated into English.