{"id":34407,"date":"2023-10-10T09:00:30","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:00:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/marcel-cabon-in-all-his-work\/"},"modified":"2023-10-10T09:00:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-10T05:00:30","slug":"marcel-cabon-in-all-his-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/marcel-cabon-in-all-his-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Marcel Cabon in all his work"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>The Trou d&#8217;Eau Douce Book Festival kicks off this year with a landmark event in the history of Mauritian literature: the publication of Marcel Cabon&#8217;s complete works, by L&#8217;Atelier des Nomades. Extracts from   <\/b><b><i>Namast\u00e9<\/i><\/b><b>his most famous novel<\/b><b>,<\/b><b> and the story <\/b><b><i>Le rendez-vous de Lucknow<\/i><\/b><b> <\/b><b>s<\/b><b>will be read on the opening night of the festival, by former president Cassam Uteem and writer Ananda Devi.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/b><i>Dominique Bellier<\/i><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s only the published work,&#8221; Robert Furlong points out to us, having surveyed and collected all Cabon&#8217;s writings for the publisher as soon as his work fell into the public domain in 2022. &#8220;I&#8217;d love to explore the manuscripts. It&#8217;s very important that his unpublished works and correspondence are also accessible to the public and to all those who want to explore this literature.&#8221; <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>By bringing to light a pillar of contemporary Mauritian literature, these complete works &#8211; published as they are &#8211; also redress an injustice: paradoxically, Marcel Cabon&#8217;s writings have hardly been republished since his death in 1972&#8230;<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The first volume is devoted to poetry, the first genre in which the author expressed himself, first with 4 collections, then 70 poems published in magazines and newspapers. Cabon is a poet above all else,&#8221; exclaims Robert Furlong. Even when he writes prose, his vocabulary and evocations always go beyond reality and create a special atmosphere&#8230;&#8221; <span class=\"Apple-converted-space\"> <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Readers will find around 70 stories in the second volume, followed by novels and short stories in the third (including <i>La S\u00e9raphine<\/i>, published in Madagascar in 1947), and finally, in the fourth volume: biographies, travelogues and essays.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trou d&#8217;Eau Douce Book Festival kicks off this year with a landmark event in the history of Mauritian literature: the publication of Marcel Cabon&#8217;s complete works, by L&#8217;Atelier des Nomades. Extracts from Namast\u00e9his most famous novel, and the story Le rendez-vous de Lucknow swill be read on the opening night of the festival, by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":34408,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1776],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-34407","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-culture-en"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34407","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lagazette-mag.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}