Since his entry to the Académie française, Dany Laferrière does not deviate from the academic. Instead of just writing, he writes and draws it. The landscapes of childhood, memories of reading – orgasmic when it comes to The lady Chatterley’s Lover –, of the cities with palm trees or skyscrapers, famous characters, from Nabokov to Annie Leibovitz. He never claimed to be talented for drawing, but he does it anyway and it explodes with color between lines of text, also hand-drawn, until the ISBN code of this book in the format album. He tells…
Dany Laferrière : It’s been thirty-five years that I am confined
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