"The Resignation of Man" by Géraldo Saint-Armand at Livres en Folie

Released this year by Éditions Étoile polaire, "La démission de l'homme" (Sketch of an Anthropology of the Underclass in Haiti) is a thought-provoking book that challenges us to confront ourselves. Comprised of four chapters, the work by Professor Géraldo Saint-Armand aims to be a historical, anthropological, and sociological reflection on Haitian society. It will be available at the 29th edition of Livres en folie on June 8th.

Elien Pierre
Par Elien Pierre
12 May 2023 | Lecture : 3 min.

In this important text, Géraldo Saint-Armand paints a portrait of a country in tatters, held hostage by shameless "elites" who reduce Haitian society and its people to the bare minimum, to the instinct of survival: the belly and the lower belly. According to the author, Haitian society has taken up the colonial slave model that Leslie Péan associates with a self-corruption that " [...] provokes a profound subversion of meaning, giving rise to a mimetic culture and a mental organization that favors the most obscur

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