Life without complexion: Maryse Conde’s Memories

By Prof. Jameson Rai

Whoever comes from reading the moving memoirs of childhood and adolescence of the Guadeloupian narrator Maryse Cond? (Pointe-?-Pitre, 1937) will undoubtedly arrive at the gates of life without complexion eager to find out what suns are hiding behind the corner of Rue Cujas.
The protagonist of that Parisian postcard from the fifties has her whole life ahead of her. She gazes at the horizon like brand new toys. In life without complexion, however, we hear the story of an explorer who is aware that she has traveled much of the journey. She makes a stop along the way. A pause to observe herself naked, shake off the burden of pious lies and be able, immediately afterwards, to face with greater lightness the penultimate stretch of her journey. The image of her that her mirror returns to him contains as many lights as shadows. And exactly like this, without ignoring a single chiaroscuro, she is how Maryse Cond? shares her.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B09V121JD4
• ISBN13: 9798428522303
• Release Date: March 2022
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 276 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"