A great Mauritian voice of the 20th century, Jean Fanchette published most of his poetic work in France where he worked and lived from the age of 19. He had made writing his Proust madeleine to summon the lost world of childhood. Published in paperback, his anthology of poetry, L’Île Équinoxe, spells out nostalgia for his native island, but also “the habit of exile”, the quest for “landmarks” and the irrepressible memory of the “hyacinths that drift “on the Congo River”.
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Literature: between childhood nostalgia and provisional identity, with Mauritian Jean Fanchette
