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Charles Malato, “Souvenirs de Nouvelle-Calédonie” (1901)

January 1, 2021 Shawn P. Wilbur

Other writings on New Caledonia: As Talamo: New Caledonian Tales (1897) [English translation] “Chez les sauvages,” L’Aurore 5. no 1309 (20 Mai 1901): 1. “Les Canaques de Touho,” L’Aurore 5. no 1312 (23 Mai 1901): 1. “Missionnaires et Canaques,” L’Aurore 5. no 1322 (2 Juin 1901): 1-2. “Chez les canaques,” L’Action 4 no. 1066 (27 février 1906): 1-2. Un drame à l’Ile de Pins, serial in La France libre, 28 mars – 22 juin 1920 (68 installments) Damê : poème canaque, serial in La France libre, 3 février – 28 mars 1920 (32 installments) Les déportés, serial in Le Quotidien, […]

Charles Malato, “Some Anarchist Portraits” (September 1, 1894)

July 10, 2015 Shawn P. Wilbur

SOME ANARCHIST PORTRAITS. I AM an anarchist. I have known intimately most of those who have carried on the propaganda by word of mouth and by writing, and also by deed: and if I disallow the epithet of “anarchist,” as applied to certain acts of equivocal individuals, I am not the less convinced that social problems need, at certain moments, to be solved by force, when other means are ineffective. I love and admire Vaillant, for instance, just as some English republicans love and admire Cromwell, who also was a regicide. But I do not believe that rascality has anything […]

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Charles Malato’s Tales of New Caledonia

February 2, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

[ezcol_2third] At the age of seventeen, Charles Malato, the son of Paris communards, was exiled to New Caledonia with his parents. That’s perhaps a natural start for a life that would be largely dedicated to anarchism. Malato was an activist and a prolific writer, producing journalism, autobiography, anarchist theory, drama and fiction for both adults and children. It’s probably no surprise that New Caledonia features in a number of his writings, or that those writings bear the mark of a youth in the region. I’ve started to collect and translate some of Malato’s writings on New Caledonia, beginning with an […]

Charles Malato, “New Caledonian Tales” (1897)

February 1, 2014 Shawn P. Wilbur

New Caledonian Tales TALAMO [CHARLES MALATO] —— CHAPTER I A MYSTERIOUS CAPTAIN Old Martinot was a fine old man, and when he walked the streets of Saint-Ouen, straight as an “I” and smiling in his white beard, the housewives greeted him with deference and the gamins ran after him, shouting: “Hi, Captain Martinot! How are you, captain?” From whence came this nickname of “captain,” by which they had all come to call him? The good man had none of the slightly rigid appearance of old soldiers: he never wore a top hat, nor a straight collar clasped by a […]

Charles Malato, “Some Anarchist Portraits” (1894)

December 12, 2012 Shawn P. Wilbur

–> FORTNIGHTLY REVIEW. No. CCCXXXIII. New Series.—September 1, 1894. SOME ANARCHIST PORTRAITS. I am an anarchist. I have known intimately most of those who have carried on the propaganda by word of mouth and by writing, and also by deed: and if I disallow the epithet of “anarchist,” as applied to certain acts of equivocal individuals, I am not the less convinced that social problems need, at certain moments, to be solved by force, when other means are ineffective. I love and admire Vaillant, for instance, just as some English republicans love and admire Cromwell, who also was a regicide. […]