Dîner à Douarnenez

by Claude McKay, Jean-Max Guieu (Translator)

Été 1925, Finistère. Claude McKay, qui voyage de Marseille à Saint-Pierre de Brest pour rendre visite à son ami Lucien, apprend en chemin le décès de ce dernier. Il erre alors sur le littoral breton et découvre le petit port de Douarnenez. De cette expérience, il tire un récit lumineux, ode à l’hospitalité et à une pensée transculturelle.

100 pages, Paperback

Published June 7, 2024

About the author

Jamaican-born American writer Claude McKay figured prominently in the Harlem renaissance of the 1920s; his works include collections of poetry, such as Constab Ballads (1912), and novels, including Home to Harlem (1928).

Home to Harlem, a best-seller, won Festus Claudius McKay, a poet and a seminal figure, the Harmon gold award for literature.
He also wrote novels Banjo and Banana Bottom . People not yet published his manuscript, called Amiable with Big Teeth: A Novel of the Love Affair between the Communists and the Poor Black Sheep of Harlem , of 1941.
McKay also authored collections of poetry, a collection of short stories, Gingertown . He authored two autobiographical books, A Long Way from Home and My Green Hills of Jamaica , published posthumously. He entitled a non-fiction, socio-historical treatise Harlem: Negro Metropolis . People published his poetry collection, Harlem Shadows , in 1922 among the first books during the Harlem renaissance. Survivors published his Selected Poems posthumously in 1953.

Reviews

[Nina]

c’était super 🫶🫶🫶 je vais de ce pas lire d’autres livres de McKay le mec a l’air super

[Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Très belle découverte que Claude McKay, dont le style est merveilleux, vibrant et humain.