Marnatha I. TERNIER’s very first book has just been published by Éditions C3. It is entitled: La Transe des Masques. It has nearly 410 pages. It is a collection of short stories with a preface by Pradel Henriquez, former Minister of Culture and Communication, and a postface by Professor Jean Elie Gilles, Doctor of Letters and university professor in the United States of America. The novel is now in the press of C3 Éditions.
THE HAITI FACTOR, July 2, 2024._In his preface, the journalist and critic Pradel Henriquez insists, among other things, on the notion of physical suffering which sometimes gives birth to a great work…:
“Following an excruciating pain, which was supposed to precede a surgical operation, which was certainly benign but absolutely fragile, the author (Marnatha Irène Ternier) of this work of literary fiction on the dual problem of trances and masks in our society, had to face the unique experience of a lifetime”…
The preface writer Pradel Henriquez still does not know how to categorize this work by Marnatha Ternier, which is very complex and which, as I said above, borrows sometimes from philosophy, from literary history and criticism, from the history of religions and the damage caused by the latter, at least from the arrival of Christopher Columbus, from our current little “pastors” who are increasingly selling religion today like hot pie.
In fact, I would say right away that it is a collection of short stories. A collection of stories. Fictional. Fiction. The whole thing is peppered with poetry so present that one would believe, as one reads the book, that one is also dealing with a long poem in the manner of a René Philoctetes in whom poetry always flows in abundance, from the first to the last word of the book.
I was talking about fiction. But everything is so true. Everything is lived. Everything is said and identifiable in a society where everyone knows everyone. Everyone knows the lesbians, the homosexuals, the murderers, the criminals, the corrupt, the thieves, the dislocated, lanky civil servants, the geniuses, the stars, the idiots, the madmen, the priests, the pastors, the houngans. Here, everything is known. Yet we choose to live in the fashion of
” break that sheet cover…”.
In his postface to Marnatha Ternier’s work, Doctor Jean-Elie Gilles already attacks these trances and masks of Marnatha Irène Ternier in the title “as an existential dictation of the soul in search of the sublime, for current times”.
Doctor Jean-Elie Gilles, residing in New Jersey in the United States, continues and I quote:
“In this collection, the author touches on three important literary concepts that concern us all today:
Otherness, the temporality of our earthly existences and the trance.
And this otherness, Doctor Jean-Elie Gilles will say later, not only targets the pain of women in a cruel world still clinging to machismo, which translates into the feminization and bisexuality of many men, it also becomes the standard-bearer of homosexuals and any other group subject to discrimination….” (end of quote).
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