Ti Jean L'horizon

by Simone Schwarz-Bart

1979 · 300 pages

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About this book

Chacun de nous reçoit un don en venant sur la terre. Ti Jean L'horizon, souviens-toi du souffle rafraîchissant de ta tendre Égée. Hélas, la Bête l'a avalée, après avoir englouti le soleil ! C'est le moment d'emprunter ton propre chemin, Ti Jean. Quitte les ténèbres de Fond-Zombi, entre dans la gueule de la dévoreuse des mondes. Tu y découvriras un pays étrangement familier, celui de tes ancêtres...

Simone Schwarz-Bart est née en Guadeloupe en 1938. Commandeur dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, elle est notamment l'auteur de Pluie et Vent sur Télumée Miracle (Grand Prix des lectrices de Elle).

" On peut lire Ti Jean L'horizon comme une aventure extraordinaire, un conte d'amour, une histoire de sorcellerie, un ouvrage de science-fiction où la Bête jouerait le rôle de machine à remonter le temps. "

Simone Schwarz-Bart

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...when, one day out hunting, he met his own story, our hero didn't recognize it. (book 2)
...what would become of his memory of the old photograph he had once seen on [her] veranda? Would it fade from his mind, or would it still go on floating inside him, a piece of flotsam worn ever smoother and more transparent, no more than a breath[...]? (book 4)
The Ancients had always said that the world below was an exact replica of the world above, except that it was wrapped in the mists of eternity. (Book 5)
...the cries of the living had touched and hurt him, like a new kind of stoning. So, shaking off the dust of this world, the hero set forth straight away for the cave of the dead. He arrived at early dawn, just before the flame of the sun. (Book 5)