ÉDOUARD GLISSANT


La Lézarde


          The Ripening





Plants of the Neotropical Realm


Coquelicot


Number of times mentioned: 2
Latin name: Pavonia spinifex
Region of origin: West Indies, United States



Kenpei, Pavonia spinifex, 30 June 2007, Photograph, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pavonia_spinifex1.jpg.




Quotations:

"Cette véranda immense, dans l'ombre de la quelle le regard ne pouvait plonger. Cette aisance et cette quiétude. Les pieds de piment rouge et jaune, les coquelicots vifs, et toute la paisible blancheur des murs." (54)

"No eye would penetrate the shadowy recesses of the wide veranda, and he resented its luxurious, tranquil air, the red and yellow pepper roots and the bright poppies at the foot of the peaceful white walls." (53)


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"Et ce soir-là, comme si elle savait qu'il était là, Valérie dépassa les coquelicots, elle arrivait (ramassant du cresson peut-être)." (55)

"Valérie went beyond the flower beds; she came nearer and nearer; perhaps she was picking cress." (54)


Botanical reference: Pedro Acevedo and Mark Strong, “Catalogue of Seed Plants of the West Indies,” Smithsonian Contributions to Botany 98 (January 1, 2012): 518, https://doi.org/10.5479/si.0081024X.98.1.









Image credits:

Tomás Sánchez, Autorretrato En Tarde Rosa, 1994, Acrylic on linen, 1994,
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/tomas-sanchez-landscape-paintings/.


Tomás Sánchez, Orilla y Cielo Gris, 1995, Acrylic on canvas, 1995,
https://www.thisiscolossal.com/2020/03/tomas-sanchez-landscape-paintings/.




Text editions:


Édouard Glissant, La lézarde: roman (Paris: Editions du Seuil, 1958).
Édouard Glissant, The Ripening, trans. Frances Frenaye (New York: G. Braziller, 1959).