Aimé Césaire
Birth date: June 26, 1913
Died: April 17, 2008
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A Tempest was an interesting read. It takes the form of a play, which is rather difficult and confusing to read if you aren't used to a play format. It bears the topics of slavery, longing for freedom, and power. It's interesting to see the difference between the slaves Ariel and Caliban. One pursue...
“Hear ye! Hear ye! The buffalo is wounded. He can’t do anything at all because he’s been shot. That’s why the buffalo has grown furious. Who is the buffalo? The buffalo, it’s the government of the Belgians and the Flemish.” - A Season in the Congo, Aimé Césaire Aimé Césaire is a writer from Martini...
funny.makes fun of the original play.
We just saw the Young Vic production of A Season in the Congo, starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, and like Darryl I am blown away. It is a fantastic piece of theater, which effortlessly manages to be several things at once: a biopic of Patrice Lumumba's life, a modern version of a Shakespearian tragedy, a m...
"Vainly in the tepidity of your throat you ripen for the twentieth time the same indigent solace that we are mumblers of words.Words? while we handle quarters of earth, while we wed delirious continents, while we force steaming gates, words, ah yes, words! but words of fresh blood, words that are ti...
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