A Woman Named Solitude: A Novel

by André Schwarz-Bart

Overview

Like André Schwarz-Bart's previous book, Last of the Just, which traced the Jewish experience of martyrdom, this book recreates through fact and myth people's enslavement, humiliation and survival.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815607045
Publisher:	Syracuse University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2001
Edition description:	1ST SYRACU
Pages:	188
Sales rank:	975,608
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.48(d)

About the Author

Andre Schwarz-Bart is the author of The Last of the Just, which was awarded the Prix Goncourt.

Editorial Reviews

A Woman Named Solitude is a really brilliant conception of a black consciousness. . . . Schwarz-Bart recreates the slave experience as it must have seemed to the West Africans sold to white traders as tons of black flesh. . . . The chapters set in Africa seem to me the purest evocation of negritude by a white writer that I have read anywhere.-- "Saturday Review Syndicate"

A beautiful book, told in a dreamlike flow of images. . . . The work of a conscientious and gifted writer.-- "The New York Review of Books"

Although written in a deceptively uncontrived style, this very powerful book brilliantly telescopes history and conveys all the breadth of emotion of a good epic poem.-- "The New Yorker"

This book must be read to be believed. . . . Surely it shouldn't be possible to tell the tortures of slavery in the manner of a fairy tale and still convey the extent of the atrocity. . . . André Schwarz-Bart can, and does, make literature out of agony.-- "New York Times Book Review"

From the Publisher

A beautiful book, told in a dreamlike flow of images. . . . The work of a conscientious and gifted writer.

The New York Review of Books

A Woman Named Solitude is a really brilliant conception of a black consciousness. . . . Schwarz-Bart recreates the slave experience as it must have seemed to the West Africans sold to white traders as tons of black flesh. . . . The chapters set in Africa seem to me the purest evocation of negritude by a white writer that I have read anywhere.

Saturday Review Syndicate

Although written in a deceptively uncontrived style, this very powerful book brilliantly telescopes history and conveys all the breadth of emotion of a good epic poem.

The New Yorker

This book must be read to be believed. . . . Surely it shouldn't be possible to tell the tortures of slavery in the manner of a fairy tale and still convey the extent of the atrocity. . . . André Schwarz-Bart can, and does, make literature out of agony.

New York Times Book Review

Although written in a deceptively uncontrived style, this very powerful book brilliantly telescopes history and conveys all the breadth of emotion of a good epic poem.

The New Yorker