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Malcolm de Chazal (12 September 1902 – 1 October 1981) was a Mauritian writer, painter, and visionary, known especially for his Sens-Plastique, a work consisting of ...
Malcolm de Chazal (1902-1981), writer [16] [17] Raymond Chasle (1930–1996), Francophone diplomat and poet [ 18 ] Lindsey Collen (1948– ), Creolophone and anglophone novelist and essayist
Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981, Mauritius, nf) Andrée Chedid (1920–2011, Egypt/France, p/f) Cris Cheek (born 1955, England, p/nf) Mavis Cheek (born 1948, England, f)
The island of Mauritius is home to many languages, and Mauritian literature exists in French, English, Creole and Indian languages.Major themes in Mauritian literature include exoticism, multiracialism and miscegenation, racial and social conflicts, indianocéanisme, and—more recently—post-modernism and post-structuralism currents, such as coolitude.
Chazal or Ḥazal (Hebrew: חז״ל) [a] are the Jewish sages of the Mishnaic and Talmudic eras, spanning from the final 300 years of the Second Temple period until the 7th century, or c. 250 BCE – c. 625 CE. Their authority was mostly in the field of Halakha (Jewish law) and less regarding Jewish theology. [1]
The French writer and painter Malcolm de Chazal (1902–1981) called the central image of Jupiter and Semele "this birth-death in one". The Swedish surrealist Ragnar von Holten (1934–2009) described the work as "an allegory of regeneration by death".
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De Chazal was born on 15 December 1770, in Port Louis, Isle de France. He was deputy of the district of Pamplemousses, in the colonial Assembly of the Isle de France. He was an amateur painter and is known for his portrait of the British cartographer and Royal Navy captain Matthew Flinders, painted in 1806–1807. [1] The fourth edition of the ...