Dany Laferrière, Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer [How to Make Love to a Negro Without Getting Tired]

Suzette Ali (Université de Quebec, Montreal); Nicolas Gaille (Université Laval)
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Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer

, published in 1985 by VLB Éditeur, is the first novel by Dany Laferrière and is considered a significant work in Quebec’s contemporary literature. Besides translations to different languages that have had a lot of success – including David Homel’s English translation

How to Make Love to a Negro

in 1987 – the novel was turned into a movie directed by Jacques W. Benoit in 1989. The book was published a few years after Laferrière’s arrival in Montreal. Reportedly, the writer had to leave Haiti fearing for his life because of his journalistic activities, including his collaboration at

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, which displeased the political regime in power back then. Composed of 28 short chapters, the novel is narrated in the…

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Citation: Ali, Suzette, Nicolas Gaille. "Comment faire l’amour avec un Nègre sans se fatiguer". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 August 2015 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=35609, accessed 19 March 2024.]

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