La Vie scélérate — Roman (1987)

Authors : Maryse Condé — Romancière guadeloupéenne, auteure majeure de la littérature antillaise

Genres : roman

Original language : francais

Editions

  • , 1987 en

Description

Novel by Maryse Condé published in 1987, awarded the Grand prix littéraire d’Afrique noire. The book tells the story of Marie-Claire, a Guadeloupean métisse born in Paris to a Martinican father and a Creole mother. She spends her youth between France and the Antilles, marked by colonial alienation and a quest for autonomy. Condé explores the complexity of Antillean identity, racism in the Antilles and in France, and the violence of colonial oppression on individual lives. The work is one of Condé’s most accomplished novels, remarkable for its lucidity and psychological realism.

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