Césaire, Aimé
Overview
| Works: | 1,010 works in 2,847 publications in 11 languages and 39,797 library holdings |
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| Genres: | Drama Criticism, interpretation, etc Poetry History Political plays Biography Parodies, imitations, etc Verse drama Lyric poetry Documentary films |
| Roles: | Author, Interviewee, Author of introduction, Editor, Honoree, Other, Bibliographic antecedent, Director, Contributor, Publishing director |
| Classifications: | PQ3949.C44, 841 |
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Most widely held works about
Aimé Césaire
- Free and French in the Caribbean : Toussaint Louverture, Aimé Césaire, and narratives of loyal opposition by John Patrick Walsh( )
- Aimé Césaire, the collected poetry by Aimé Césaire( Book )
- Aimé Césaire by Gregson Davis( Book )
- Notebook of a return to the native land by Aimé Césaire( Book )
- Modernism and negritude : the poetry and poetics of Aimé Césaire by A. James Arnold( Book )
- Aimé Césaire by Janis L Pallister( Book )
- Lyric and dramatic poetry, 1946-82 by Aimé Césaire( Book )
- Lost body = Corps perdu by Aimé Césaire( Book )
- Non-vicious circle : twenty poems of Aimé Césaire by Aimé Césaire( Book )
- Postcolonial paradoxes in French Caribbean writing : Césaire, Glissant, Condé by Jeannie Suk( Book )
- Freedom time : Negritude, decolonization, and the future of the world by Gary Wilder( Book )
- Engagement and the language of the subject in the poetry of Aimé Césaire by Ronnie Leah Scharfman( Book )
- Aimé Césaire; Black between worlds by Susan Frutkin( Book )
- Aimé Césaire by Aimé Césaire( Book )
- Aimé Césaire : une traversée paradoxale du siècle by Raphaël Confiant( Book )
- The poet's Africa : Africanness in the poetry of Nicolás Guillén and Aimé Césaire by Josaphat Bekunuru Kubayanda( Book )
- Aimé Césaire, poète noir by Hubert Juin( Book )
- Aimé Césaire : un homme à la recherche d'une patrie by M. a M Ngal( Book )
- Proposition poétique : une lecture de l'œuvre d'Aimé Césaire by Bernadette Cailler( Book )
- L'humanisme dans le théâtre d'Aimé Césaire; étude de trois tragédies by Rodney E Harris( Book )
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Most widely held works by
Aimé Césaire
Discourse on colonialism by
Aimé Césaire(
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128 editions published between 1950 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 3,239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power and antiwar movements."--Jacket
128 editions published between 1950 and 2017 in 5 languages and held by 3,239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"This classic work, first published in France in 1955, profoundly influenced the generation of scholars and activists at the forefront of liberation struggles in Africa, Latin America, and the Caribbean. Nearly twenty years later, when published for the first time in English, Discourse on Colonialism inspired a new generation engaged in the Civil Rights, Black Power and antiwar movements."--Jacket
Notebook of a return to the native land by
Aimé Césaire(
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188 editions published between 1939 and 2017 in 11 languages and held by 1,933 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Born in 1913 in Martinique, Aime Cesaire is acknowledged as one of the major poets of the twentieth century writing in French, and his celebrated long poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a return to the native land), is his best known work. In addition to containing the most forceful statement of Negritude (a term coined by Cesaire and appearing in print for the first time in this poem), Cahier is a masterpiece of modern French poetry." "The poem is marked by its allusive character, its highly compressed images, and its unusual use of the French language. In preparing this edition, Abiola Irele has tried to keep the needs of the English-language student foremost in mind. The edition presents the complete text of the poem in French, with an editorial apparatus in English that includes a substantial introduction setting it in its historical and ideological context and offering a detailed analysis of its literary significance; a stanza-by-stanza commentary explicating references and allusions; and a select bibliography of related works."--BOOK JACKET
188 editions published between 1939 and 2017 in 11 languages and held by 1,933 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"Born in 1913 in Martinique, Aime Cesaire is acknowledged as one of the major poets of the twentieth century writing in French, and his celebrated long poem, Cahier d'un retour au pays natal (Notebook of a return to the native land), is his best known work. In addition to containing the most forceful statement of Negritude (a term coined by Cesaire and appearing in print for the first time in this poem), Cahier is a masterpiece of modern French poetry." "The poem is marked by its allusive character, its highly compressed images, and its unusual use of the French language. In preparing this edition, Abiola Irele has tried to keep the needs of the English-language student foremost in mind. The edition presents the complete text of the poem in French, with an editorial apparatus in English that includes a substantial introduction setting it in its historical and ideological context and offering a detailed analysis of its literary significance; a stanza-by-stanza commentary explicating references and allusions; and a select bibliography of related works."--BOOK JACKET
The original 1939 notebook of A return to the native land : bilingual edition by
Aimé Césaire(
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9 editions published in 2013 in English and French and held by 1,176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of blacks around the world. Commentary on Césaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and inticolonialist rhetoric - material that Césaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, here in French and in its first English translation, reveals a work that is both spiritual and cultural in structure, tone, and thrust. This Wesleyan edition includes the original illustrations by Wilfredo Lam, and an introduction, notes, and chronology by A. James Arnold. --from inside jacket
9 editions published in 2013 in English and French and held by 1,176 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Aimé Césaire's masterpiece, Notebook of a Return to the Native Land, is a work of immense cultural significance and beauty. This long poem was the beginning of Césaire's quest for négritude, and it became an anthem of blacks around the world. Commentary on Césaire's work has often focused on its Cold War and inticolonialist rhetoric - material that Césaire only added in 1956. The original 1939 version of the poem, here in French and in its first English translation, reveals a work that is both spiritual and cultural in structure, tone, and thrust. This Wesleyan edition includes the original illustrations by Wilfredo Lam, and an introduction, notes, and chronology by A. James Arnold. --from inside jacket
Une saison au Congo by
Aimé Césaire(
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85 editions published between 1966 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 944 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
L'Afrique au temps du vertige des indépendances reconquises. De temps en temps, une grande et haute figure. Au Congo, celle de Patrice Lumumba. Homme politique. Sans doute le seul du Congo, et le plus grand de l'Afrique. C'est qu'il y a en lui du voyant et du poète. A travers cet homme que sa stature même semble désigner pour le mythe, toute l'histoire d'un continent et d'une humanité se joue de manière exemplaire et symbolique
85 editions published between 1966 and 2011 in 6 languages and held by 944 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
L'Afrique au temps du vertige des indépendances reconquises. De temps en temps, une grande et haute figure. Au Congo, celle de Patrice Lumumba. Homme politique. Sans doute le seul du Congo, et le plus grand de l'Afrique. C'est qu'il y a en lui du voyant et du poète. A travers cet homme que sa stature même semble désigner pour le mythe, toute l'histoire d'un continent et d'une humanité se joue de manière exemplaire et symbolique
The tragedy of King Christophe : a play by
Aimé Césaire(
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45 editions published between 1963 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 726 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in a period of upheaval in Haiti after the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, it follows the historical figure of Henri Christophe, a slave who rose to become a general in Toussaint Louverture's army
45 editions published between 1963 and 2017 in 4 languages and held by 726 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Set in a period of upheaval in Haiti after the assassination of Jean-Jacques Dessalines in 1806, it follows the historical figure of Henri Christophe, a slave who rose to become a general in Toussaint Louverture's army
A tempest : based on Shakespeare's The tempest, adaptation for a Black theatre by
Aimé Césaire(
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21 editions published between 1985 and 2018 in English and held by 646 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A troupe of black actors perform their own Tempest. Césaire's rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the Afro-American experience and African mythology to raise questions about colonialism, racism, and their lasting effects." --Page [4] of cover
21 editions published between 1985 and 2018 in English and held by 646 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
"A troupe of black actors perform their own Tempest. Césaire's rich and insightful adaptation draws on contemporary Caribbean society, the Afro-American experience and African mythology to raise questions about colonialism, racism, and their lasting effects." --Page [4] of cover
A season in the Congo : a play by
Aimé Césaire(
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11 editions published between 1968 and 2018 in English and held by 612 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cšaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congo follows Lumumba's efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Cšaire powerfully depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic, Christ-like figure whose conscious martyrdom reflects his self-sacrificing humanity and commitment to pan-Africanism
11 editions published between 1968 and 2018 in English and held by 612 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This play by renowned poet and political activist Aime Cšaire recounts the tragic death of Patrice Lumumba, the first prime minister of the Congo Republic and an African nationalist hero. A Season in the Congo follows Lumumba's efforts to free the Congolese from Belgian rule and the political struggles that led to his assassination in 1961. Cšaire powerfully depicts Lumumba as a sympathetic, Christ-like figure whose conscious martyrdom reflects his self-sacrificing humanity and commitment to pan-Africanism
Les armes miraculeuses by
Aimé Césaire(
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40 editions published between 1946 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 581 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Digte præget af et voldsomt billedsprog og politisk engagement
40 editions published between 1946 and 2017 in 3 languages and held by 581 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Digte præget af et voldsomt billedsprog og politisk engagement
La tragédie du roi Christophe; théâtre by
Aimé Césaire(
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59 editions published between 1963 and 2009 in French and Undetermined and held by 567 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La tragédie du roi Christophe est une œuvre barbare (au sens noble du terme) lyrique et nécessaire. Affirmant que la politique est la force moderne du destin et l'histoire la politique vécue, Aimé Césaire donne à voir l'invention du futur, d'un futur enraciné. L'aventure haïtienne de Christophe ebvoque le destin collectif du peuple africain d'aujourd'hui. A la phase de la révolte aiguë a succédé celle de la re-connaissance, de la constitution d'un patrimoine authentique et librement assumé. -- Back cover
59 editions published between 1963 and 2009 in French and Undetermined and held by 567 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La tragédie du roi Christophe est une œuvre barbare (au sens noble du terme) lyrique et nécessaire. Affirmant que la politique est la force moderne du destin et l'histoire la politique vécue, Aimé Césaire donne à voir l'invention du futur, d'un futur enraciné. L'aventure haïtienne de Christophe ebvoque le destin collectif du peuple africain d'aujourd'hui. A la phase de la révolte aiguë a succédé celle de la re-connaissance, de la constitution d'un patrimoine authentique et librement assumé. -- Back cover
Et les chiens se taisaient, tragédie by
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52 editions published between 1956 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 499 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
52 editions published between 1956 and 2009 in 3 languages and held by 499 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Une tempête; d'après "La tempête" de Shakespeare. Adaptation pour un théâtre nègre by
Aimé Césaire(
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19 editions published between 1969 and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 489 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Un navire sombre dans les eaux furieuses d’une tempête infernale. Depuis l’île où il a été exilé à la suite d’un funeste complot, le duc et magicien Prospero contemple le naufrage… et voit débarquer ses ennemis d’autrefois. La vengeance est proche ! Mais son esclave Caliban se révolte, et rien ne sera plus comme avant… Une version « africaine » de la pièce de Shakespeare où Césaire démystifie le merveilleux pour mieux faire surgir le chant de la liberté. -- 4ème de couverture
19 editions published between 1969 and 1997 in 3 languages and held by 489 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Un navire sombre dans les eaux furieuses d’une tempête infernale. Depuis l’île où il a été exilé à la suite d’un funeste complot, le duc et magicien Prospero contemple le naufrage… et voit débarquer ses ennemis d’autrefois. La vengeance est proche ! Mais son esclave Caliban se révolte, et rien ne sera plus comme avant… Une version « africaine » de la pièce de Shakespeare où Césaire démystifie le merveilleux pour mieux faire surgir le chant de la liberté. -- 4ème de couverture
Toussaint Louverture; la Révolution française et le problème colonial by
Aimé Césaire(
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55 editions published between 1960 and 2009 in French and English and held by 457 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
55 editions published between 1960 and 2009 in French and English and held by 457 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Moi, laminaire-- : poèmes by
Aimé Césaire(
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22 editions published between 1982 and 1993 in French and Undetermined and held by 414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
22 editions published between 1982 and 1993 in French and Undetermined and held by 414 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La poésie by
Aimé Césaire(
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26 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 390 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La disparition dʹAimé Césaire, il y a un an, donna lieu à un surprenant concert de louanges médiatiques. Les obsèques nationales qui lui furent rendues, lʹempressement aussi unanime que tardif de la classe politique française, où perçait lʹaveu dʹune certaine mauvaise conscience, tout ceci ne doit pas faire oublier quʹAimé Césaire fut longtemps tenu à la marge. Homme de colère plutôt que de compromis, il est avant tout lʹauteur dʹune œuvre poétique enfiévrée, enchantée, dont les premiers mots résonnent encore avec une violence nue: "Au bout du petit matin ... / Va-tʹen, lui disais-je, gueule de flic, gueule de vache, va-tʹen je déteste les larbins de lʹordre et les hannetons de lʹespérance." (Cahier dʹun retour au pays natal). Sous le titre général La Poésie, cette œuvre fut rassemblée au Seuil pour la première fois en 1994, puis reéditée en 2006. Elle est à nouveau remise en vente. -- Description from http://livre.fnac.com (Oct. 19, 2011)
26 editions published between 1993 and 2006 in 3 languages and held by 390 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
La disparition dʹAimé Césaire, il y a un an, donna lieu à un surprenant concert de louanges médiatiques. Les obsèques nationales qui lui furent rendues, lʹempressement aussi unanime que tardif de la classe politique française, où perçait lʹaveu dʹune certaine mauvaise conscience, tout ceci ne doit pas faire oublier quʹAimé Césaire fut longtemps tenu à la marge. Homme de colère plutôt que de compromis, il est avant tout lʹauteur dʹune œuvre poétique enfiévrée, enchantée, dont les premiers mots résonnent encore avec une violence nue: "Au bout du petit matin ... / Va-tʹen, lui disais-je, gueule de flic, gueule de vache, va-tʹen je déteste les larbins de lʹordre et les hannetons de lʹespérance." (Cahier dʹun retour au pays natal). Sous le titre général La Poésie, cette œuvre fut rassemblée au Seuil pour la première fois en 1994, puis reéditée en 2006. Elle est à nouveau remise en vente. -- Description from http://livre.fnac.com (Oct. 19, 2011)
Cadastre : poèmes by
Aimé Césaire(
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22 editions published between 1961 and 1991 in French and Undetermined and held by 374 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
22 editions published between 1961 and 1991 in French and Undetermined and held by 374 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Ferrements; poèmes by
Aimé Césaire(
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21 editions published between 1960 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
«Ferrements» (1960), p. 17.86, est un recueil "d'à mi-parcours". Césaire y confie les "névralgies nocturnes du 'moi' resté seul avec l'amour perdu de l'aimée originelle". Autres poèmes : "Tropiques" (1941-1943), "Soleil cou coupé" (1948), "Noria" (1976), "Comme un malentendu de salut" (1994)
21 editions published between 1960 and 1991 in 3 languages and held by 369 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
«Ferrements» (1960), p. 17.86, est un recueil "d'à mi-parcours". Césaire y confie les "névralgies nocturnes du 'moi' resté seul avec l'amour perdu de l'aimée originelle". Autres poèmes : "Tropiques" (1941-1943), "Soleil cou coupé" (1948), "Noria" (1976), "Comme un malentendu de salut" (1994)
Solar throat slashed : the unexpurgated 1948 edition by
Aimé Césaire(
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2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 281 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aimé Césaire's most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure to new heights and depths. A Césaire poem is an intersection at which metaphoric traceries create historically aware nexuses of thought and experience, jagged solidarity, apocalyptic surgery, and solar dynamite. The original 1948 French edition of Soleil cou coupé has a dense magico-religious frame of reference. In the late 1950s, Césaire was increasingly politically focused and seeking a wider audience, when he, in effect, gelded the 1948 text--eliminating 31 of the 72 poems, and editing another 29. Until now, only the revised 1961 edition, called Cadastre, has been translated. The revised text lacks the radical originality of Soleil cou coupé. This Wesleyan edition presents all the original poems en face with the new English translations.--From publisher description
2 editions published in 2011 in English and held by 281 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Soleil cou coupé (Solar Throat Slashed) is Aimé Césaire's most explosive collection of poetry. Animistically dense, charged with eroticism and blasphemy, and imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, this book takes the French surrealist adventure to new heights and depths. A Césaire poem is an intersection at which metaphoric traceries create historically aware nexuses of thought and experience, jagged solidarity, apocalyptic surgery, and solar dynamite. The original 1948 French edition of Soleil cou coupé has a dense magico-religious frame of reference. In the late 1950s, Césaire was increasingly politically focused and seeking a wider audience, when he, in effect, gelded the 1948 text--eliminating 31 of the 72 poems, and editing another 29. Until now, only the revised 1961 edition, called Cadastre, has been translated. The revised text lacks the radical originality of Soleil cou coupé. This Wesleyan edition presents all the original poems en face with the new English translations.--From publisher description
Cadastre; poems by
Aimé Césaire(
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6 editions published between 1961 and 1973 in English and French and held by 239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
6 editions published between 1961 and 1973 in English and French and held by 239 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
Aimé Césaire : a voice for history(
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4 editions published between 1994 and 2015 in French and held by 219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This series introduces the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term "negritude" and lauched the movement called the "Great Black Cry." This three part study features many of the most important and artistic intellectual figures of the past six decades
4 editions published between 1994 and 2015 in French and held by 219 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
This series introduces the celebrated Martinican author who coined the term "negritude" and lauched the movement called the "Great Black Cry." This three part study features many of the most important and artistic intellectual figures of the past six decades
Soleil éclaté : mélanges offerts à Aimé Césaire à l'occasion de son soixante-dixième anniversaire(
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12 editions published between 1983 and 1984 in French and English and held by 216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
12 editions published between 1983 and 1984 in French and English and held by 216 WorldCat member libraries worldwide
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Related Identities
- Eshleman, Clayton Translator Editor Author
- Arnold, A. James (Albert James) 1939- Author Editor Translator
- Smith, Annette (Annette J.) Translator Editor Author
- Toussaint Louverture 1743-1803
- Davis, Gregson Author Editor Translator
- Lumumba, Patrice 1925-1961
- Walsh, John Patrick 1971- Author
- Senghor, Léopold Sédar 1906-2001 Bibliographic antecedent Interviewee Editor Author Contributor
- Henri Christophe King of Haiti 1767-1820
- Kesteloot, Lilyan Other Author Editor
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Aesthetics Africa America Authors, Martinican Blacks in literature Blacks--Race identity Caribbean Area Caribbean Area, French-speaking Caribbean literature (French) Césaire, Aimé Colonies Colonies in literature Condé, Maryse Congo (Democratic Republic) Criticism and interpretation Decolonization in literature English poetry French colonies French literature French poetry Glissant, Édouard, Guillén, Nicolás, Haiti Henri Christophe,--King of Haiti, Intellectual life Lesser Antilles--West Indies, French Literature Literature and society Lumumba, Patrice, Martinican drama (French) Martinican literature (French) Martinique Modernism (Literature) Nationalism Nationalism in literature Negritude (Literary movement) Poetics Political and social views Politics and government Politics in literature Postcolonialism Postcolonialism in literature Prime ministers Race awareness in literature Race in literature Revolution (Haiti : 1791-1804) Senghor, Léopold Sédar, Shakespeare, William, Surrealism (Literature) Toussaint Louverture,
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Alternative Names
Aimé Césaire afrokaribisch-französischer Schriftsteller und Politiker
Aimé Césaire francuski poeta i polityk, związany z Martyniką
Aimé Césaire Frans-Martinikaanse dichter en politicus
Aimé Césaire Frans politicus
Aimé Césaire franséische Politiker
Aimé Césaire fransk poet och politiker
Aimé Césaire fransk poet og politikar
Aimé Césaire fransk poet og politiker
Aimé Césaire franzööschen Politiker
Aimé Césaire martinický básník
Aimé Césaire Martiniquais politician
Aimé Césaire poeta, scrittore e politico francese
Aimé Césaire poète et homme politique français
Aimé Césaire polític francès
Aimé Césaire político francês
Aimé Césaire vācu politiķis
Amatus Césaire
Césaire, A.
Césaire, A. 1913-2008
Césaire, A. (Aimé)
Césaire Aimé
Césaire, Aimé 1913-2008
Césaire, Aimé Fernand.
Césaire, Aimé Fernand David
Césaire, Aimé Fernand David 1913-2008
Sezer, Eme
Sīzīr, Īmīh, 1913-2008
Еме Сезер
Сезер, Эме
Էմե Սեզեր ֆրանսիացի գրող
אמה סזר
امه سزر سیاستمدار و شاعر فرانسوی
إيمي سيزير
إيميه سيزير، 1913-2008
ئێمێ سێزار
एइमे सेझैर
এমে সেজায়ার
세제르, 에메 1913-2008
세제르, 에이메 1913-2008
エメ・セゼール
セゼール, エメ
艾梅·塞泽尔
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