Tuesday, April 22, 2008

Great Regulars: [Aimé] Césaire also did much

to develop cultural activities from his mayor’s office—encouraging theatre, music and handicrafts.

Aimé Césaire’s wider fame was due to his poetry and his plays — all with political implications, but heavily influenced by images from the subconscious. Thus it was that André Breton (1896-1966) writer and ideologue of the Surrealists saw in Césaire a kindred soul and became a champion of Césaire’s writing.

from René Wadlow's The Flutes of Dionysus: Newropeans Magazine: Aimé Césaire: A Black Orpheus Puts Away His Lyre

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