Chamoiseau's grand and intriguing riff on the police procedural, "Solibro Magnificent" represents another masterpiece by the author of the award-winning "Texaco". It's carnival time at Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enraptured public, the great teller of tales, Solibro Magnificent, is felled, seemingly choked by his own words. Is it autostrangulation or murder?
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Chamoiseau's grand and intriguing riff on the police procedural, "Solibro Magnificent" represents another masterpiece by the author of the award-winning "Texaco". It's carnival time at Fort-de-France, Martinique. Before an enraptured public, the great teller of tales, Solibro Magnificent, is felled, seemingly choked by his own words. Is it autostrangulation or murder?
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Partick Chamoiseau"s novel is a series of episodes surrounding the death of a story teller, Solibo, on the island of Martinique. Composed of three parts, the novel tells the stories that were told about Solibo by his friends and acquaintances as they congregate around his corpse. It also contains stories about the inabililty of the police (all Martinicans -- some who speak and think only in French and other who are bi-lingual, speaking French and Creole), to determine why he died. (They suspect he was poisoned, but everyone else knows that he died choking on words). At the end, the reader is treated to a Solibo soliloquy (which reminded me of Molly Bloom's solioquy at the end of Ulysses), which captures how the dead story teller spun his stories. I can best describe my response to the novel as tasting something delicious" The narrative dazzles the reader with stories that border on the fantastic, as though the story tellers are telling things that only happen in dreams. Readers will laugh at comic episodes, yet will be moved by this very artful study that to wonder what the world will be like when the oral tradition dies and is totally replaced by the works of "word scratchers." I discovered Chamoiseau thorugh reading Milan Kundera's book "Testaments Betrayed." I shall ever be grateful to Kundera for interesting me in this marvelous study. On completing my first reading, I've told every person I've come in contact with, both in person and by email, to read it. I'm currently planning to read it a second time very soon.
