Ségou - Tome 1 Les murailles de terre - Collector

by Maryse Condé

736 pages

Published October 17, 2024

About the author

Maryse Condé was a Guadeloupean, French language author of historical fiction, best known for her novel Segu. Maryse Condé was born as Maryse Boucolon at Pointe-à-Pitre, Guadeloupe, the youngest of eight children. In 1953, her parents sent her to study at Lycée Fénelon and Sorbonne in Paris, where she majored in English. In 1959, she married Mamadou Condé, an Guinean actor. After graduating, she taught in Guinea, Ghana, and Senegal. In 1981, she divorced, but the following year married Richard Philcox, English language translator of most of her novels.

Condé's novels explore racial, gender, and cultural issues in a variety of historical eras and locales, including the Salem witch trials in I, Tituba: Black Witch of Salem and the 19th century Bambara Empire of Mali in Segu.

In addition to her writings, Condé had a distinguished academic career. In 2004 she retired from Columbia University as Professor Emeritus of French. She had previously taught at the University of California, Berkeley, UCLA, the Sorbonne, The University of Virginia, and the University of Nanterre.

In March 2007, Condé was the keynote speaker at Franklin College Switzerland's Caribbean Unbound III conference, in Lugano, Switzerland.

Reviews

[Maylie S. · Rating 5 out of 5]

Une magistrale fresque historique qui nous plonge dans l’organisation et les chroniques de Ségou : entre royauté, noblesse, rites et coutumes. Que d’histoires, de généalogies et de personnes secouées, dispersées, éteintes par les bouleversements historiques qui rythment cette période : esclavage, avènements de l’Islam et du Christianisme, guerres, épidémies, etc.
C’est une narration profondément humaine avec la finesse d’une plume documentaire.

[paola · Rating 4 out of 5]

3.5 stars. condé engages in some really important work here, and a multi-character epic spanning half a century takes a lot of work. masterfully researched, but some of the stories and characters just... went nowhere and dropped off abruptly ?

[adeline Bronner · Rating 5 out of 5]

Chef d’oeuvre!

[Brunot Mathilde · Rating 4 out of 5]

adaptation radiophonique France Culture

[Alexia · Rating 5 out of 5]

Superbe fresque historique sur le peuple Bambara au 18ème siècle, confronté à l'arrivée de l'islam sur ses terres et au colonialisme en arrière plan

[Béatrice Viaggio-Maccarrone · Rating 4 out of 5]

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