Dany Laferrière: Thélyson Orélien Explores Human Pain

To Yanick Lahens, with whom I had coffee in Saint-Malo while discussing our dreams of writing.

Par Dany Laferrière
21 Sep 2026 — Lecture : 8 min.
Dany Laferrière: Thélyson Orélien Explores Human Pain

Dany Laferrière: Thélyson Orélien devant la librairie Raffin à Montréal, 12 août 2026

To sum up Thélyson Orélien’s book (C’était ça ou mourir), I picture a man who has had a gallon of gasoline poured over him and then been set on fire, while people scream at him that there is a river two kilometers away that he must reach if he does not want to burn alive. So every second counts, and even Usain Bolt would not have stood a chance. Except that, with all the twists and turns, the river is 12,000 kilometers away, and we are not even sure it has not dried up.

This incredible subject had been sitting there for years, a

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