Ready to Burst - Brossura

"A Haitian novel about friendship, politics and artistic theory....  Frankétienne writes with a savage beauty about politics, art, and the roles of men and women in a turbulent world."  — Kirkus Reviews

"Ready to Burst is a gorgeous, explosive book filled to the brim with genius and fantasy, with surreal dreams and memories. Open it anywhere and it will astonish you." — Amy Wilentz, Chicago Tribune

· "His work can speak to the most intellectual person in the society as well as the most humble. It's a very generous kind of genius he has, one I can't imagine Haitian literature ever existing without." -- Edwidge Danticat

"A whirlwind of a book by the master of Haitian letters" — The Daily Beast

"[Frankétienne] has long been considered one of the most invigorating Caribbean authors . . . Ready to Burst marks the first, long overdue, appearance in the United States of the energetic founder of literary 'spiralism' . . . [Ready to Bust] consists of three at once intersecting and merging lives, and their single, compelling, intricately structured story is told in resourceful, oft-poetic language." -- The Arts Fuse 

"Ready to Burst is a vital, impressive work." -- Michael A. Orthofer, complete-review

 · "The "burst" in "Ready to Burst", also announces the eruption onto the scene of one of literature's great figures [...] a magician of technique and feeling, in the tradition of a great family of writers like James Joyce, João Guimarães Rosa et Osman Lins." Rafael Lucas in his preface to the 2004 French edition of "Ready to Burst"

 · "Each of Frankétienne's words builds a world of which every Haitian dreams." Emmelie Prophete, Haitian-American writer (Interview w/Huffington Post)

 · "Frankétienne speaks like an educated man [...] but also like a friend and a citizen of the world at peace with himself and with others." Annick Chalifour, l'Express.

 · "It is Frankétienne's audacity in his writing - his charming ability to calmly bring his interlocutor into his initially terrifying world [...] which makes him such an incredible writer and persona". Alessandra Benedicty, Professor at the City College of New York (Interview w/ Huffington Post)

FRANKÉTIENNE was born in 1936, in Ravine-Sèche, Haiti. Raised and educated there, he then went on to found a school for the other children in his hometown. Widely recognized as Haiti's most important literary figure, and a co-founder of the literary movement spiralisme, Frankétienne has written more than 30 plays, poetry collections, and works of prose fiction, including Dezafi, the first modern novel written entirely in Haitian Creole. He is also a renowned painter, with his art displayed in museums all over the world. Frankétienne was named a 2010 UNESCO Artist for Peace; won the 2005 Grand Prix d'Ouessant Island Book; won the 2006 Latin Union Prize for Literature and Romance; was a 2006 winner of the Netherlands Foundation Prince Claus; was made a Commander of the Arts and Letters in 2010; and was a candidate for the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2009. The New York Times has called Frankétienne "the Father of Haitian Letters."

ANDRÉ NAFFIS-SAHELY was born in 1985, in Venice, Italy, of Italian and Iranian parentage. He was raised in Abu Dhabi and later educated in Britain. He has written on literature, film and the visual arts for The Times Literary Supplement, The Independent, The Economist, PN Review and Banipal and is the UK contributor for Words Without Borders. Aside from publishing poetry and fables, he also translates from the French; forthcoming titles include The Rule of Barbarism (Pirogue Poets Series) and The Bottom of the Jar (Archipelago Books), by Abdellatif Laâbi; The Barbary Figs and The Funerals by Rachid Boudjedra (Arabia Books), as well as Frankétienne's Mûr à crever (Archipelago Books). He is currently co-editing a collection of tributes for the poet Michael Hofmann, the subject of his doctoral thesis, which will be published as The Yellow of Unlove (CB Editions). He lives in London.