This narrative style poetized tells the trajectory of a group of young Martinican anti-colonial people. His career really experience a turning point in 1958 when Edouard Glissant won the Prix Renaudot (french Litterature prize) for his first novel "The Lézarde".
In 1956 released his " Soleil de la consience" ans the poem " Les Indes". It also collaborates with the journal " Présence Africaine". Subsequently, he published several stories in the magazine " Les Lettres Nouvelles" of his friend Maurice Nadeau. In 1953, back to Martinique, it binds friendships with a group of poets: Jean Paris, Jacques Charpier, Henri Pichette, Yves Bonnefoy, Maurice Roche, Yacine Kateb, Jean Laude and Rene Giroux, all hungry of literature and having faith in the struggles of decolonization. He published " La Terre inquiète" in 1955 where he opened to the Parisian intellectual life. He also writes under the direction of Jean Wahl " Découverte et conception du monde dans la poésie contemporaire". He published his first book, " Un champ d'île" in 1949, published in 1953, when he will succeed his philosophy degree. There will experience material difficulties, isolation, but also the meeting with another young Martinican, Frantz Fanon with whom he will forge a strong friendship. This is an opportunity for him in 1946, leaving for the first time his native island. It is moving away from marxism and internationalism, and approaches René Depestre ideas, young Haitian poet and enrolled more his island in the Caribbean.įor his graduate studies, he left Martinique for Paris where he will integrate la Sorbonne University. Passionate about literature, he participated in a sophisticated group of young lamentinois (people from the town of Lamentin in Martinique) writing poems and essays. Two years later, Aimé Césaire will be appointed professor of philosophy in the same high school but will not be his teacher. He will continue his studies at the Lycée Schoelcher (high school) in 1938 where teaching aimed for excellence and the training of future elites of the island. It integrates primary school in Lamentin in a studious atmosphere where it is forbidden for children to speak Creole as the model imposed by the colonial authority. Coming from a family of five children, he is the son of an overseer of a plantation, central character of the plantation that embodies the authority and respect of the established order. He was born on Septemat Bezaudin, a district of Sainte-Marie. Édouard Glissant is a Martinican writer considered as one of the Fathers of Creole.
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