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Raphaeel Confiant. Mamzelle Libellule. Paris. Le Serpent a Plumes. 1994. 224 pages. 85 F. ISBN 2-908957-45-0.
In a recent interview with the Martinican journal Antilla, Raphaeel Confiant hailed the publication of Mamzelle Libellule as a great victory for Creole: now for the first time French publishers are buying books written in Creole to be translated into French. Confiant declares this in publication the most important event in his life and invites other Caribbean writers not to desert their mother tongue. The present volume is a translation of his last novel written in Creole, Marisose (1987). Since then Confiant has written several novels and critical essays, all in French, that have earned him literary prizes and praises as well as controversy, and he is considered, together with...