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23. This is no call: A butchered quotation from “La crosse en l’air” (1936), by the French poet Jacques Prévert (1900-77):
Rassurez-vous braves gens
ce n’est pas un appel à la révolte
c’est un évêque qui est saoul et qui met sa crosse en l’air
comme ça … en titubant …
There is no call for alarm
this is no call for rebellion
just a drunk bishop waving his white cross in the air
like so … staggering about …
24. “Green Calf” Street: Vauvert and veau vert (green calf) are homophones in French (trans).
25. rue de l’Enfer: Hell Street (trans).
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
MARIE VIEUX-CHAUVET (1916–73), a seminal voice of post -occupation Haiti, was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Her novels include Fille d’Haïti, La Danse sur le volcan, Fonds des nègres, and Les Rapaces.
ABOUT THE TRANSLATORS
ROSE-MYRIAM RÉJOUIS and VAL VINOKUR (assistant professors of literary studies at Eugene Lang College / the New School) have translated two novels by Patrick Chamoiseau, Solibo Magnificent and Texaco, the latter of which won the American Translators Association Galantière Prize for Best Book in 1998. Their translation of Love, Anger, Madness was supported by a Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.
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Translation copyright © 2009 by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur
Preface copyright © 2009 by Rose-Myriam Réjouis
Introduction copyright © 2009 by Edwidge Danticat
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Published in the United States by Modern Library, an imprint of The Random
House Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
Originally published in French as Amour, colère et folie
by Maisonneuve et Larose, Paris, in 2005.
Copyright © 2005 by Emina Soleil.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Chauvet, Marie.
[Amour, colère et folie. English]
Lover, anger, madness: a Haitian trilogy / Marie Vieux-Chauvet;
translated by Rose-Myriam Réjouis and Val Vinokur.
p. cm.
eISBN: 978-1-58836-870-6
1. Réjouis, Rose-Myriam. II. Vinokur, Val. III. Title.
PQ3949.C493A813 2009
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