From How to make love with a nigger without getting tired (1985), Dany Laferrière, born in 1953 in Port-au-Prince, refines his own myth with patience and obstinacy, repeating and nourishing the fantasy of a unique book which would be the mirror of his “American” experience. A very moving whole, which varies according to the writer’s declarations (see I write as I live2000), composed of around ten novels, shorter texts and essays, among which, in addition to his first book, today appear Chronicle of gentle drift, Is this grenade in the young Negro’s hand a weapon or a fruit?, The enigma of the return, Everything is moving around me And Diary of a Writer in PajamasPassing by Night at Oki’sfirst part almost weak Eroshima (1987). A series of novels, he tells us in his stunning preface, through which he wanted to try his luck “at this crazy poker game where paranoia and lies dance a frenzied jig around the table”. A compendium of laughter, sensuality, posture and depth.
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