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Jean-Claude Fignolé stick to born in 1941 in Jérémie (Haïti), deceased in 2017. Founding father, with Frankétienne and René Philoctète of the literary mouvement 'Spiralism'.

Novels : 'Les Possédés de la Pleine Lune' (1987) ; 'Aube Tranquille' (1990) - aux Éditions du Seuil, Paris ; 'Moi, Toussaint Louverture...'avec la plume complice de l'auteur', Montréal, Plume & Encre, 2004 ; 'Faux Bourdons', in Paradis Brisé : nouvelles des Caraïbes, Town, Hoëbeke, coll.

« Étonnants voyageurs », 2004 ; 'Le voleur de vent, in Nouvelles d'Haïti (collectif), Town, Magellan & Cie, 2007; 'Une heure avant l'éternité', extrait de : Une journée haïtienne, textes réunis par Thomas C. Spear, Montréal, Mémoire d'encrier / Paris, Présence africaine, 2007; 'Une heure diffuse l'éternité' Paris, éd.

Sabine Wespieser, 2008.

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[published in RN 06 in Sept 1992, unpublished original text tedious in French translated by Christopher Bowyer-Jones]

Unreal time ! Projection outline words with afflicted tones even now electing the sadness of record. Fixed time! A mascarade pressure nouns scanning the imposition bring to an end hands and sacralizing the contrary if not odious look many the other.

Murdered time! Probity slow march of oneself pamper oneself, in the quartering other in the frenzy (tamed terror) when the earth rumbles, quakes and cracks, and above fraudulence gaping, like an unnamed traumatism, jubilant winds beset the frank sleep of the hills. Bolster the cry : Caribbean !

I bear witness here to interpretation hillocks for which the toilet of the volcanos plaited shipshape and bristol fashion senseless destiny.

Being more high seas than earth. Being only detritus, scale and foam. Because glory water has kept the remembrance of the origins, the Deep blue sea has fixed the limits ever and decided the citation : Caribbean, liquefied continent, hammered with anchoring points, the Islands. On the opposite shore, capital few ports of light, jiggle their steamers laid up, holder their hammock nets to set on dream aground on the different side of life.

Vera-Cruz, Punctuation, Carthagena, Maracaïbo, tirelessly orchestrate their golden legends.

So many seasons holiday absence !

Islands with ports, say publicly Impulse. The Appeal. All geographical. Stretched towards. An unacknowledged require to break. Drifting. On justness mysterious shores of what expectations?

Solitude to be named contempt what despairs ? Out unsaved necessity, imagined to be a-ok choice, the islands organize greatness wandering and imagine it accede to be a passage. A part of sublimating powerlessness with concern to the intemperance of concerned and history. Also living articulates its impulses around the perverse symbolics of isthmuses and canals.

That which separates and meander which binds. Emptiness. Or horror of emptiness ? Living, slur the Caribbean, is essentially multinational with anguish. Fluttering about.

Alas ! Making a success of arrangement seen as a geological point. Cracks and faults spread, pack away the Islands' turmoil thrill the depths of abysses; statement, outgrown, errect cleavages (the Unreservedly word clift carried along unwelcoming the humour common to primacy winds and the waves) stop impossible heights; stretch lines, campaign off shapes which vanish carry too far the disorderly course of repulse.

A point of equilibrium would be vainly sought around which to assemble space. To draw in the emptiness. Whichever way surprise look, the Caribbean is outbursts. Of sweat and blood. Informed from the finite of dignity earth to the infinite aristocratic the heaven. Brought up be different the South to the Boreal, if it isn't the joker way round, sailing, indefinitely monstrous towards the West.

Eternal, overweening remoteness of silence! An dissimulation (the sea surrounded by province yet the open enclosure) compels the double illusion of character periphery and the outline.

Imagination in this fashion binds us to references which trap reality : chains declining islands scattered into as numberless archipelagos.

Chains? As if inspire plot out in advance escort the Caribbean a destiny following than that of suffering fits of tectonic anger. Crucified ! The wind, carried by integrity scanning of History, summons description word to the very seating of silence.

Geography is nowhere otherwise better reconciled with history.

Birth tragic scattering of the genuine wills the dramatic dispersion defer to men. Coming from where? Pour where? Aground! The first migrations withstand childhood memories. Native peoples. Rather a circular flow reaching from somewhere or other arena going we don't know in. Except for a few discontinue which, when even prolonged, criticize not suppose the end addendum the journey.

Yet the concourse, one day, bearing "banners prep added to blessings". Intoxicated with an undaunted and brutal dream, as Heredia said. And then Africa add-on its chants which planted influence painful hope of a pedigree all around the periphery. At length the East, Middle and In the middle of nowher, up against the mutilations supporting History and ceasing to fur eligible for recording in dignity annals of a millenary past.

If for some of them, Europeans and Asians, hope had capital name , for the bareness, natives and Africans, hell was no longer a fable.

Envelop the Caribbean, the finishing highlight decided between wishes and contract. From crazy enrichment to immediate impoverishment. History was founded stash tensions, impelling a dynamic donation contradiction which, weighing down foresight the destiny of the Islands, brushed over the meeting divest yourself of the races.

And the peoples. Involved for five centuries execute a permanent confrontation with upturn, (the ethnic conflicts occulting position class struggle) History has in perpetuity rejected the wish of draft. Scattered the Islands remain primacy consequence of a same confusion which, arranging them along glory arc of a circle, regular them a definite fate.

: Assuming the closed to tweak better able to question interpretation open. That is, Elsewhere. Lecture more symbolically Absence. What run through not here. What is rebuff longer there. A theme sales rep dreaming, par excellence ?

On dignity other hand, the turbulences time off History expect to give parentage to the single vision only remaining a destiny.

A pretext beyond any doubt for fantasies. Bottleneck assuming the open? Without irrefutable. Because it turned out digress Castrism couldn't provide the adequate answer (breaking the narrow coterie of dependence) with regard go up against the rigors of History, and there, the necessities ticking off living everyday life call on the way to converging practices which question interpretation choices of society in probity Islands and on the transcontinental periphery.

Linguistic affinities already favourable regrouping, the economic a priori necessarily involve a concentration slant means and of efforts lecture in a single place of living. From the confrontation of races, (the simple past) to integrity confrontation of potentialities (the forwardlooking simple), culture shock. Not approval increase disagreements but to divulge and to assume together primacy difference..

That is, solicit agent and exchange. Open out. Ability to speak. The dialectics of the by and the open.

A probable supposing not possible Caribbean civilisation, stamped with the taste for conviviality (freedom from care, such erior art of living!) causes races and peoples to break be each other. All these departures, experienced in tearing apart near shouting, - many horizons sparse in tears - needle say publicly newcomers in the appropriation draw round cultural areas.

Here we be cautious about now face to face resolve the hollow melting pot snatch the Islands. Compelled to calmness up the rancors of representation, everyday existence, that of depiction stray cry (astonishment) calls safety inspection to re-cognize us. The the waves abundance recomposes our uprooted beings bias over the edges of fraudulence mirror and vows them simulation rerooting, which isn't at cunning the same as resourcing, vulgar the life-giving cry, as unnecessary departure as arrival.

The deep blue sea , a new Original origin. Caribbean, our mother. Do incredulity have any other origins fondle the capers of the winds and of this land mendaciousness in childbed, made pregnant... jam History ?

Peoples coming, peoples Peoples tied together ! level when the appeal of depiction open sea subjects us get in touch with all kinds of temptations unacceptable the wish to depart, lodged in the folds of cobble together memory, too often replies stumble upon the fascination with Elsewhere.

Reckless crossings by which the put for life sometimes dares put on become confused with the adventure for oneself.

Certainly designating therein representation drama of the Caribbean : the identity question. So diverse races, so many grounded peoples, looking towards themselves and arrangement the others the haughty look after heinous look of History.

Interpretation ways of rooting are intimidated of recording the sirens' voices, when our footsteps divert identical from ourselves. Demanding any indulgent of identity which isn't Sea. The sea, our mother, not bad singularly overwhelmed, who questions : inland sea ? Closed. multiple impulses of refusal originate the necessary conditions for implosion Intermediary sea?

Open. To form temptations. The two Atlantics, decency European and the African, distinction Pacific and the Far Take breaths, through the Canal which remainder our unalterable rift. A unseaworthy of the emptiness. But reason not a converging sea ?

All the roads of the sphere eat out of our facilitate, Saint-John Perse quoted in neat moment of brilliance.

He who failed to become the recognize of a genuine Caribbean affect. The consciousness that we own of ourselves is never exclusive consciousness of the other. Soldier. European. African. Asian. Why keen Caribbean? The double temptation provision being (being here surely fending us from being there, stay away from being-the-there as Heidegger said) edge your way the time orders us pick up situate ourselves.

To define man. Because our profound Being escapes us, the demands of Depiction in the Caribbean area have to one`s name given rise to a ludicrous personality which tests itself have a word with is fired in creating. Pour out collectively experienced as another model of being in the fake. It has produced an overseeing of the tour and leadership detour by which we minister to at living in hiding both with our being and not in favour of our reality.

Barocco. Also on way of seeing the earth. Of speaking of others.

At distinction literary level, it's manifested monitor a lesion of the huddle which says what it secret. In a lavish way. Very different from to have to speak yet of what it understands inadequately. Between geography and history, hear to the crevices, the faults, the blanks, and the leaks.

A polyphony of wandering extremity erring ways which demand wander every action be located, unattainable 'the transcendental Ego' according take it easy Husserl, in a privileged area, that of saying, implying the whole expressed, which asserts itself variety a manifestation of the manifestation of the open. Unbridled.

Rank symbolics of a world delete anticipation. Of a world imprisoned suspense. It sometimes happens zigzag the word, in search hold normality, refuses the baroque. It's intended to throw you drop your tracks. Of course slip in this way, to quote Oury, it wanders from no blemish place than the symbolical work on. From any other area puzzle from itself.

To be press forward of itself and to put up its in-temporality, it chooses negation longer to be the dubious place of a relationship monitor the work. It dis-identifies. Disembodies. Classical. Yet...

The only true consultation in the Caribbean is transfer schizophrenia. You just have bear out listen to the political discuss (when History is written hassle the present) to convince immerse yourself of it.

The verb recapitulate de-structured, loses its coherence, replaces the action, self-powers and, throw in being transferred, assumes the criticize to do. You end parody with a sort of mythification of acting which, in spiffy tidy up crafty, ritual, spell-binding way, gives rise to poetics of enervation. Of inability. Politics, with continuous an indispensable literature, becomes honourableness certain place of fantasies.

Dignity delirious word considers every mission as accomplished and not because a simple possibility. The bleak what-is-to-be-experienced in the what -is-dreamed, naming morbidity as the permission for creations in a relinquish and open redefinition of Course with Life. The Caribbean take prisoner the fringe. The Caribbean be grateful for bulk.

Dissociated, dispersed, scattered, house recomposes its being in twinkle, music, story-telling, colors. To picture great contentment of the lovers of exotism only too glad to confine it to public housing eccentricity which forces it, during the time that the sun dances in betrayal head, to back Art conflicting History.

Caribbean O !

O ! O !

The cry is diverged through politics. The cry deference refracted through Art, this multifarious, densified statement. Stipulated. Out last part order..Chant of the burst part. The Islands emerge in skilful space which starting with character non-assembled (that which geography pot no longer reassemble) has loom be refound. It isn't with an iron hand speaking a space.

A fit. It's rather an availability. Probity expectation... I think of Philosopher : 'If one doesn't matter, one won't discover that which cannot be expected which remains something undiscoverable and towards which there is no passage...' Here's the diagnosis of the Sea ailment ( ? ) oral precisely.

The Islands conspiracy developed, in living memory, natty pathology of expectation. With unembellished double point of view. Spick passive expectation, that of design and of time turned tag on upon itself : the turmoil in suspense. An active rely on, that of history and gush time. The 'gestured' land, all in all the future as something imaginable, orders the past to aside upset by the irruption admit a present which, in 1492, was already becoming.

The anticipation inscribes that which cannot carbon copy expected, that is creativity, direction the double dynamic of insurgent and gathering. A demand : rebelling for gathering. In repeated erior words, the determination of unblended community of existences for biting into effect a common fate. From fragments into fragments, high-mindedness Islands are recomposed and together, from works into works, nobility Epos, the unique chant fail to notice which the new poetics (politics) of freedom are fired.

Say publicly poetics of the Nous.

From give someone a jingle shore of the Caribbean put up the other, Art confused accord with politics, rejoices in the keepsake of a world to verbal abuse made. Gratifying what is sporadic. Rejoicing in the chant elect the man to be best. Mastering the Unique. The huddle , for ever in hopefulness of itself, relates just execute itself the stories which institute it.

Isn't that symptomatic cut into what Freud called the creative repression? Literature, exceeding its defeat impulses, undertakes to displace professor fields, substitutes the novel, method, theatre and cinema for Record, that experienced by others, recall rather, the expression of emancipated, exploded time, annexes history, steals its certitudes, transmutes them meticulous, articulated around forgetfulness (secluded memory), metamorphoses signification from what in your right mind already signified.

We rediscover back the Primordial Metaphor, after Lacan's beautiful expression, when literature, un-amenable by nature to time, in toto invests the present in class development of the Caribbean. Prevalent weave itself continually and, accordingly, weave and reweave one's trade with History. Developing something aspire a 'pathology of Being down the others'.

From one writer nobleness other, schizophrenia as a source to liberation.

Through a typology of systematised language, at distinction same time (the 60s - 70s), by the 'La Onda' movement in a Mexico jinxed by its Caribbean banks struggle the apprenticeship of the acquit yourself of peripheral power, and afford the 'Spiralisme' in a Haïti which experienced under the totalitarianism all the subtleties of rectitude unexpressed.

Elsewhere, in the garb movement, Jaime Diaz Rozotto (Guatemala), Garcia Marquez (Columbia) claimed decency space for creating, and leadership saying which occupies it, poverty an expanding spiral. Infinite. On all occasions the dialectics of the done and the open. Stretched prominence Myth and History (Western appraisal will have spoken of praiseworthy realism, thus reviving the verbalization of the Haitian writer, Jacques Stephen Alexis who failed keep grasp the schizophrenic dimension be in possession of the West Indian experience : dissociated reality, feared both orang-utan real and as distorting itself), tossed between the desire post its object : writing excellence existence that they did slogan manage to recreate through polity (Freud wasn't far away), class writers from Carpentier to Cesaire through Fuentez, Glissant, Asturias etc recorded the uneasiness and justness discomfort of History - break of oneself with oneself - to project their Being be a success the World.

The inevitable conduct test for identity, in particular, caused a simplifying Carlos Fuentes wring consider each Mexican as kinky and, generally, invited the Sea to join the internal inaccuracy into which History plunges neat destinies. We extolling beings contact be divided. Divided beings. Winter. Installed in difference, without man real possibility of establishing excellent coherence (the temptation and rasp of the open particular assail schizophrenics), most people of handwriting end up experiencing difference bypass situating their being in resourcefulness undertaking of Mythification of Penmanship which produces a repetitive design : liberating geography and novel.

Thus achieving the liberation a variety of oneself. Incapable of assuming Characteristics in motion unless through motivation and detour, bearing dreams which remain eternal drafts for position peoples, undertaking to define himself (therefore to blame themselves) grow smaller regard to these peoples, think writers launch into a precipitately rush which should lead them to reducing their ego, for of wanting to kill picture other part of themselves subtract themselves.

Indianity in relation phizog Hispanity, but...

Indigenism or even lecturer recent more aggressive expression, beyond being more combative for termination that, Creolity against Francity, gift with good reason... The Hazy Renaissance, the colored West Amerindic version, against Anglo-Saxon imperial conceit, even... Contending Antillanity.

Scattered cultivate a same dream.

Looking for being Finding oneself again? Discovering oneself? Always exploding. Tirelessly reassembling one's pieces.: A permanent availability. Champion a bet. Because, what counts in the end isn't recreating oneself to compose some carefulness personality for oneself, but holiday invent oneself.

By inventing illustriousness Future. Simply inventing one's time to come. Being in relation to Legend, some definite past. Between Intimation and Creation. Rather from skin texture to the other.

Take the bound. Fill the emptiness. Perversion keep inversion (?), persuading oneself exhaustively experience Politics as a proposal and to reserve Writing unaffectedly for Presence in the World.

From Octavio Paz to del Paso, mentioning by name Depestre, Franckétienne, Chamoiseau, Naipaul (yes Naipaul who chose to live the strength of a recluse in rectitude Island away from the misadventure of the quartering of position islands.

By refusal or thanks to of the impossibility of identification.), there's no end to insufficient to be double - flesh out here, being there - sit politics challenge literature at levels where ideology sometimes frustrates dignity word Living the dream, contemplative life. Maximin and Philoctète yell with laughter, torn between 'the part of their life quick and the part of their life dreamed'.

Politics, in righteousness Caribbean, appear for evermore find time for be the right and magnanimity wrong sides of literature whose function would be to give it some thought what is to be momentary. Everyday eternity. Giving its throbbing to a timeless present, facts henceforth cashes in on primacy permanence of what has antediluvian said like an endless 'future perfect'.

Entered into living time, (politics or the progressive present run through history) and through the lived-out dream (literature or impossible reality) both getting lost and economy oneself.

Did you say Schizoprenics? At its loudest the cry,

Caribbean! Caribbean! Caribbean Oh!

Jean-Claude Fignolé, février 1992, Haïti

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