Poème Engagé Contre Le Racisme

of Literature is the ability of some plays, poems and novels to stir a vital reaction, irrespective of when they were written. They create an impression of truth by reaching out, sometimes across the span of centuries, to touch our imagination and engage with our pre-occupations. The ‘truth’ we detect may not be the truth which the author intended, but that scarcely matters. It is now a truism that as readers we rewrite what we read, making it our own in ways too multifarious and too mysterious to