Dany Laferrière: A Pleasure Rooted in Childhood

To Koralen

This Pleasure That Goes Back to Childhood

Reading, like writing, is a long and mysterious process of deciphering landscapes, faces, sensations and feelings. We turn them into stories in order to find coherence in our human adventure. One day, a newborn arrives in an unknown world, senses alert, trying to understand the laws and rituals that govern this territory where others have come before him.

A woman introduces herself as his mother, and a serious man, standing behind the woman, d