{"id":86676,"date":"2026-02-13T07:56:37","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:56:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/?p=86676"},"modified":"2026-02-13T07:56:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T11:56:37","slug":"barbes-creole-blues-le-nouveau-roman-de-raphael-confiant-est-en-librairie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/barbes-creole-blues-le-nouveau-roman-de-raphael-confiant-est-en-librairie\/","title":{"rendered":"\"Barb\u00e8s Cr\u00e9ole Blues,\" the new novel by Rapha\u00ebl Confiant, is now available in bookstores"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>The 1960s. \u00c9milienne and Boris are from Martinique and meet in Paris. But they come from different worlds. Boris studies philosophy at the Sorbonne and hangs out in the Latin Quarter with his petit-bourgeois friends. \u00c9milienne, on the other hand, arrives in France through Bumidom\u2014the Office for the Development of Migration in the Overseas Departments\u2014which brings thousands of people from Martinique, Guadeloupe, and R\u00e9union to mainland France to work as mail carriers, nursing assistants, factory workers, and police officers\u2026<\/h3>\n<div>But \u00c9milienne sees her destiny slipping away: she will never become a nurse. She ends up on a sidewalk on Boulevard Barb\u00e8s, at the mercy of a horrible pimp from the Caribbean. It is in this seedy neighborhood, which he frequents in secret, that Boris falls in love with the beautiful C\u00e2presse: her lips smile, but her eyes express an indescribable sadness\u2026<\/div>\n<div>Boris and \u00c9milienne recognize each other: they have things to learn from one another, so they strike a deal\u2014she will tell him her life story, and he will put it into words. Will Boris be able to bring this *Roman de l\u2019\u00c9gar\u00e9e*\u2014a story of shattered dreams and exile\u2014to a successful conclusion?<\/div>\n<div><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-86677\" src=\"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/D23749.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"515\" height=\"755\" srcset=\"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/D23749.jpg 311w, https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/D23749-150x220.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 515px) 100vw, 515px\" \/><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ann\u00e9es 60. \u00c9milienne et Boris viennent de Martinique et se rencontrent \u00e0 Paris. Mais ils n\u2019appartiennent pas au m\u00eame monde. Boris \u00e9tudie la philosophie \u00e0 la Sorbonne et tra\u00eene au quartier latin avec ses camarades petits-bourgeois. \u00c9milienne, elle, arrive en France par le biais du Bumidom, ce Bureau pour le d\u00e9veloppement des migrations dans les<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":86678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":"","rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_robots":null,"rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":""},"categories":[1779],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-litterature"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/antilla-martinique.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}