Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora

Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora

by Maryse Condé
Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora

Corazón que ríe, corazón que llora

by Maryse Condé

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Overview

En casa, en la isla caribeña de Guadalupe, sus padres se niegan a hablar criollo y se enorgullecen de ser franceses de pura cepa, pero, cuando la familia visita París, la pequeña repara en cómo los blancos los miran por encima del hombro. Eternamente a caballo entre la lágrima y la sonrisa, entre lo bello y lo terrible, en palabras de Rilke, asistimos al relato de los primeros años de Condé, desde su nacimiento en pleno Mardi Gras, con los gritos de su madre confundiéndose con los tambores del carnaval, hasta el primer amor, el primer dolor, el descubrimiento de la propia negritud y de la propia feminidad, la toma de conciencia política, el surgimiento de la vocación literaria, la primera muerte. Estos son los recuerdos de una escritora que, muchos años después, echa la vista atrás y se zambulle en su pasado, buscando hacer las paces consigo misma y con sus orígenes.

In this collection of autobiographical essays, Maryse Condé vividly evokes the relationships and events that gave her childhood meaning: discovering her parents’ feelings of alienation, her first crush, a falling out with her best friend, the death of her beloved grandmother, her first encounter with racism.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9788417115999
Publisher: Batiscafo
Publication date: 10/04/2022
Edition description: Spanish-language Edition
Pages: 176
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.60(d)
Language: Spanish

About the Author

Maryse Condé is the Grande Dame of Caribbean Literature. She was born in Guadeloupe in 1934 as the youngest of eight siblings. She taught Francophone Literature at Colombia Universityin New York, and lived there for many years. She has also lived in various West African countries, most notably in Mali, where she gained inspiration for her worldwide bestseller Segu, for which she was awarded the African Literature Prize and several other respected French awards. Condé was awarded the 2018 New Academy Prize (or "Alternative Nobel") in Literature as well as the 2021 Prix mondial Cino Del Duca for her oeuvre. She also received the Grand-Croix de l'Ordre national du Mérite from President Emmanuel Macron in 2020. She conquered the hearts of many readers in English-language territories with her novels The Wondrous and Tragic Life of Ivan and Ivana and Waiting for the Waters to Rise, longlisted for the 2021 National Book Award for Translated Literature in the US.
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