Hadriana in all my dreams Novel by René Depestre
Hadriana in all my dreams Novel by René Depestre
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Jacmel, Haiti. In 1938, at the time of Carnival. It is the end of Germaine Villaret-Joyeuse, the narrator's dear godmother and, at the same time, the wedding of the dazzling Hadriana Siloé. Led to the church, Hadriana lets out a hallucinatory yes of distress and collapses, dead, at the feet of the officiant. But we are in voodoo country and there is no death that holds. Barely buried in her beautiful white dress, Hadriana lends herself to the ritual of metamorphosis, and is reborn in the mythical species of a zombie. From then on, the young narrator lets his humor and imagination run wild, revealing the Haitian scene in all its fantasy, its sensuality, its dismantled magic and its disorder. As if the joy of living and the terror of passing away were part of one and the same energy.
