A Lifetime of Exile: Bonsoir Tendresse, René’s Story Told by Depestre

Honored author of the 32nd edition of Livres en Folie, René Depestre offers us, through Bonsoir Tendresse, the journey of a man who seems to have experienced and witnessed everything: love, loss, exile, grief, war, racism, and all those circumstances that shape both individuals and nations.

There are lives that overflow. René Depestre’s is one of them. One hundred years old and a pen that has never stopped writing—that is putting it mildly. Yet beyond the celebrations and tributes, Bonsoir Ten