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David Lurie, a tired and unmotivated scholar in Cape Town (South Africa), intertwines arelationship with a student, that flows into a complaint for sexual harassment. Forced toabandon the University, he takes refuge at his daughter’s house. Lucy lives on her own in thecountryside, in a zone torn apart by violent ethnic and cultural conflicts. Coetzee’s […]

Mona Hatoum, an artist of Palestinian origin born in Beirut, lived an experience of forced exile in Great Britain, due to the 1975 civil war in Lebanon. During her stay in London, where part of her education took place, her identity as a woman and Arab citizen and her experience expatriate have profoundly influenced her […]

In Sartorius (his seventh novel) Glissant invents a people, the Batoutos. They are from animaginary archipelago in the hearth of the African continent, which is “invisible as nation”.They have departed a long time ago from their territory in order to discover the world, in theresearch of Éléné!, an utopia which resume the spaces and times […]