| "A great book has been written... one with [a] melodic voice and amplitude of heart." Derek Walcott |
| "Chamoiseau is a writer who has the sophistication of the modern novelist, and it is from that position (as an heir of Joyce and Kafka) that he holds out his hand to the oral prehistory of literature." Milan Kundera |
Of black Martinican provenance, Patrick Chamoiseau gives us Texaco (winner of the Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary prize), an international literary achievement, tracing one hundred and fifty years of post-slavery Caribbean history: a novel that is as much about self-affirmation engendered by memory as it is about a quest for the adequacy of its own form.
In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and interspersed with extracts from fictive notebooks and from statements by an urban planner, Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the saucy, aging daughter of a slave affranchised by his master, tells the story of the tormented foundation of her people's identity. The shantytown established by Marie-Sophie is menaced from without by hostile landowners and from within by the volatility of its own provisional state. Hers is a brilliant polyphonic rendering of individual stories informed by rhythmic orality and subversive humor that shape a collective experience.
A joyous affirmation of literature that brings to mind Boccaccio, La Fontaine, Lewis Carroll, Montaigne, Rabelais, and Joyce, Texaco is a work of rare power and ambition, a masterpiece.
In a narrative composed of short sequences, each recounting episodes or developments of moment, and interspersed with extracts from fictive notebooks and from statements by an urban planner, Marie-Sophie Laborieux, the saucy, aging daughter of a slave affranchised by his master, tells the story of the tormented foundation of her people's identity. The shantytown established by Marie-Sophie is menaced from without by hostile landowners and from within by the volatility of its own provisional state. Hers is a brilliant polyphonic rendering of individual stories informed by rhythmic orality and subversive humor that shape a collective experience.
A joyous affirmation of literature that brings to mind Boccaccio, La Fontaine, Lewis Carroll, Montaigne, Rabelais, and Joyce, Texaco is a work of rare power and ambition, a masterpiece.
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Hardback Editions
June 2008 : Library Binding
| Title: Texaco Author(s): Patrick Chamoiseau, Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Val Vinokurov ISBN: 1-4395-0142-4 / 978-1-4395-0142-9 Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
June 1999 : Hardback
| Title: Texaco Author(s): Patrick Chamoiseau ISBN: 0-517-44975-7 / 978-0-517-44975-2 (USA edition) Publisher: Random House Value Publishing Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
March 1997 : Hardback
| Title: Texaco Author(s): Patrick Chamoiseau ISBN: 1-86207-007-5 / 9781862070073 (UK edition) Publisher: Granta Books Availability: Amazon UK More details... |
February 1997 : Hardback
| Title: Texaco Author(s): Patrick Chamoiseau ISBN: 0-679-43235-3 / 978-0-679-43235-7 (USA edition) Publisher: Pantheon Books / Random House, Inc. Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1992 : Hardback
| Title: Texazo Author(s): Patrick CHAMOISEAU Publisher: Granta Books Availability: Amazon More details... |
1992 : Hardback
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Hardback
| Title: Texaco Author(s): Patrick Chamoiseau ISBN: 0-224-03779-X / 978-0-224-03779-2 (UK edition) Publisher: Jonathan Cape Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
Paperback Editions
April 1998 : Paperback
| Title: Texaco Author(s): Patrick Chamoiseau ISBN: 1-86207-046-6 / 9781862070462 (UK edition) Publisher: Granta Books Availability: Amazon Amazon UK More details... |
March 1998 : Paperback
| Title: Texaco Author(s): Patrick Chamoiseau ISBN: 0-679-75175-0 / 978-0-679-75175-5 (USA edition) Publisher: Vintage Books USA Availability: Amazon Amazon UK Amazon CA More details... |
January 1997 : Paperback
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Paperback
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1994 : Unknown
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1994 : Unknown
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1994 : Unknown
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