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"A Haitian novel about friendship, politics and artistic theory.... Frankétienne writes with a savage beauty about politics, art, and the roles of men and women in a turbulent world." -- Kirkus Reviews

"Ready to Burst is a gorgeous, explosive book filled to the brim with genius and fantasy, with surreal dreams and memories. Open it anywhere and it will astonish you." -- Amy Wilentz, Chicago Tribune

"The relationship between Raynand and his friend Paulin, a novelist obsessed with Spiralist ideology, is central. Paulin is writing a novel himself and it bears remarkable similarities to Ready To Burst. In other hands, this meta-staging of a drama amid a literary manifesto might risk a descent into pomposity and obfuscation, but Frankétienne has a deftness of touch pleasingly reminiscent of Roberto Bolaño. In Glover's fine translation we can only hope that the "Father of Haitian Letters" will finally reach the wider audience he deserves." -- The Times Literary Supplement

- "His work can speak to the most intellectual person in the society as well as the most humble. It's a very generous kind of genius he has, one I can't imagine Haitian literature ever existing without." -- Edwidge Danticat

"A whirlwind of a book by the master of Haitian letters" -- The Daily Beast

"[Frankétienne] has long been considered one of the most invigorating Caribbean authors . . . Ready to Burst marks the first, long overdue, appearance in the United States of the energetic founder of literary 'spiralism' . . . [Ready to Bust] consists of three at once intersecting and merging lives, and their single, compelling, intricately structured story is told in resourceful, oft-poetic language." -- The Arts Fuse

"Ready to Burst is a vital, impressive work." -- Michael A. Orthofer, complete-review

- "The "burst" in "Ready to Burst," also announces the eruption onto the scene of one of literature's great figures [...] a magician of technique and feeling, in the tradition of a great family of writers like James Joyce, João Guimarães Rosa et Osman Lins." Rafael Lucas in his preface to the 2004 French edition of "Ready to Burst"

- "Each of Frankétienne's words builds a world of which every Haitian dreams." Emmelie Prophete, Haitian-American writer (Interview w/Huffington Post)

- "Frankétienne speaks like an educated man [...] but also like a friend and a citizen of the world at peace with himself and with others." Annick Chalifour, l'Express.

- "It is Frankétienne's audacity in his writing - his charming ability to calmly bring his interlocutor into his initially terrifying world [...] which makes him such an incredible writer and persona." Alessandra Benedicty, Professor at the City College of New York (Interview w/ Huffington Post)

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"Haiti's most important writer."The New York Times

"His work can speak to the most intellectual person in the society as well as the most humble. It's a very generous kind of genius he has, one I can't imagine Haitian literature ever existing without."Edwidge Danticat

Should he scream? Call for help? His mouth was full of saliva. His tongue heavy

The breath and spit of his pursuers were burning his head. The awful stench of their breath, a stinging vapor, was scorching his ears, drying his skin. Smell of sulphur. The acid of their bite. Their forked claws were already lacerating his back.

If only I had the time to make it to St. Joseph's Gate where I might find some people. Some help. O agile foot of my rebellious youth! Haven't I always given you the choice morsel of whatever I've eaten? Haven't I given you the longest sip of whatever I've drunk? Run faster nimble foot of the songs of yesteryear! If ill should come to me, I will blame you My mother will suffer If I die And what about my Solange, my sweetheart? Will I never see her again?

A portrait of "the extreme bitterness of doom in the face of the blind machinery of power." In vivid, fluid prose,Ripe to Burst follows the lives of two young men and their individual attempts to make sense of the deeply troubled society surrounding them. A biting critique of the "brain drain" prompted by the François Duvalier dictatorship, Frankétienne mirrors the spirit and failings of the 1960s generation.

Widely recognized as Haiti's most important literary figure, Frankétienne has written more than thirty plays, poetry collections, and works of fiction, includingDezafi, the first modern novel written entirely in Haitian Creole.