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Caribbean Winter (Paperback)
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Caribbean Winter (Paperback)
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Loot Price R389
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In 1927, Paul Morand -- a French diplomat and noted European author
-- made two extended trips to the Caribbean, Latin America and the
American South. Published in 1929, his travel account begins as a
diary about his experience of Venezuela, Curacao, Guadeloupe,
Martinique, Haiti, Trinidad, Jamaica and Cuba and ends with a
lengthy essay on Mexico. Morand was already a prolific,
cosmopolitan writer but he had not yet acquired his controversial
post-war reputation. The stylish writing of 'Caribbean Winter'
fizzes with an acute intelligence and a rich -- though sometimes
elliptical -- allusiveness (which is why this translation includes
explanatory notes). It maps not just Morand's vivid impressions but
also his main preoccupations, particularly with the shifting place
of Europe in the new world order. Although he avoids all direct
mention of the ethnocidal clearing of the 'New World' or the
African American slave-trade, he is obsessed by the perceived
threats posed to Europe's own future by mass migration and
miscegenation. Morand was, above all, an uber-European and his work
betrays the pseudo-scientific racialism of his time and background.
Yet despite this blindness he was, at least, glimpsing the right
questions to ask about the future of his world. And he knew that
the Caribbean held most of the answers. He seems to have even
intuited some of those answers and so parts of his commentary are
startlingly modern and prescient. Much of Morand's pre-war
non-fiction seems to have warranted about seven decades of
political quarantine. But the twenty-first century is gradually
re-discovering its significance, both in French and in translation.
Interestingly, while almost all of his work has by now made its way
into English, this is the first translation -- into any language --
of 'Hiver Caraibe'.
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