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"Behind one pain there is another. Sorrow is a wave without end. Bit the horse mustn't ride you, you just ride it."
From THE BRIDGE OF BEYOND by Simone Schwarz-Bart, tr. from the French by Barbara Bray, 1972 (Fr) / 1974 (En), NYRB editions.
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Just read some of the most beautiful prose I've ever encountered. A book I already know I'll return to again, and will be a favorite of the year, and years to come.
There's a spiritual quality to this work - proverbs, i ...more
From THE BRIDGE OF BEYOND by Simone Schwarz-Bart, tr. from the French by Barbara Bray, 1972 (Fr) / 1974 (En), NYRB editions.
#ReadCaribbean
#ReadtheWorld21 📍 Guadeloupe.
Just read some of the most beautiful prose I've ever encountered. A book I already know I'll return to again, and will be a favorite of the year, and years to come.
There's a spiritual quality to this work - proverbs, i ...more
This weekend I finished The Bridge of Beyond by Simone Schwarz-Bart, translated from French by Barbara Bray, and closed by reading the introduction to this edition written by Jamaica Kincaid. This is a masterful piece of literature, I only hope I can capture a coherent response in this post.
Reading this book was for me that kind of great outside my comfort zone reading, reminiscent of other favorite pillars of literature such as Morrison or Erdrich. When I read literary fiction, especially of ...more
Reading this book was for me that kind of great outside my comfort zone reading, reminiscent of other favorite pillars of literature such as Morrison or Erdrich. When I read literary fiction, especially of ...more
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