schomj's review against another edition
4.0
Picked this up to read Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, which was brilliant and powerful despite a kind of clunky translation.
It's a bilingual version and I found myself trying to read the French and just using the translation as a conprehension check. Sadly, my French skills are quite rusty, so that made for some tedious leisure reading. Returning this to the library without venturing far into the other poems in the hope of finding better translations.
It's a bilingual version and I found myself trying to read the French and just using the translation as a conprehension check. Sadly, my French skills are quite rusty, so that made for some tedious leisure reading. Returning this to the library without venturing far into the other poems in the hope of finding better translations.
partypete's review against another edition
5.0
I’m not going to say I particularly love surrealist poetry, but the context of Aimé Césaire writing in the surrealist tradition to describe the colonial and post-colonial history of Martinique is very interesting
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