Bibliographic record
Abstract
deepening their relationship. This literary project involves, furthermore, a disorientation of matter, and apparitions conjured up by the protagonist become oftentimes unrecognizable as if belonging to an alien world. This is not an easy read in that the style entails ongoing sentences with indescribable descriptions of both the above and underground worlds.At first the ardent concentration on things reads as if it might be a stylistic manifestation of the 1960s with Georges Perec (Les choses) and Alain RobbeGrillet ’s chosisme but now on a more complex and intricate level. The length of sentences will also remind one of Proust (although not as long, but Patrolin does have sentences which run over 140 words, e.g., 168–69). The obsessional fascination with minutiae and the author’s manner of describing objects by displacing the visual examination give little comfort to the reader and will most likely trouble the mind.Yet the author oftentimes offers description of matter with keen technical clarity, although somewhat visceral. As pointed out above, Patrolin shows a particular obsession to detail, and his slow rhythm with constant repetitions does, at times, make for alluring and mysterious allusions. Reading this novel, consequently, takes a difficult route due to Patrolin’s constant harping on obscure and slimy objects, and his persistent repetitions become tedious. The novel also appears to stall at times, and the goal of the trip seems to go nowhere. Perhaps the author also realizes that this is indeed an impossible voyage to a world which had become “brûlant dès qu’on prétendait se rendre au cœur, inaccessible, de la Terre”(210). The reading, albeit at times poetic and pleasurable in its rhythmic pattern, left this reviewer somewhat empty not unlike the cup the protagonist holds in his hand at the end. Metropolitan State University of Denver, emeritus Alain Ranwez Pierre-Dahomey, Néhémy. Rapatriés. Paris: Seuil, 2017. ISBN 978-2-02-134451-6. Pp. 191. Alors que la première grande vague de migration haïtienne remonte à la fin du dix-neuvième siècle, lorsque des travailleurs partent à destination de Cuba pour récolter la canne à sucre, les suivantes, générées par la misère, les désastres naturels ou la répression politique, voient des Haïtiens mettre le cap sur bien d’autres rives. Certaines s’avèrent plus difficiles d’accès que d’autres.Aussi les divers flux migratoires haïtiens se sont-ils orientés, entre autres, à l’est de l’île d’Hispaniola à partir des années 1920, en direction des Bahamas et d’autres îles caraïbes au cours des années 1960, au Canada et aux États-Unis au cours des années 1970–1980, et tout dernièrement— depuis 2015—vers l’Amérique latine, dont le Brésil, nouvel Eldorado haïtien. Nonobstant les dangers parfois mortels qui attendent ceux et celles qui s’aventurent ainsi en terre inconnue, la diaspora haïtienne compterait aujourd’hui autour de quatre millions de personnes. Et malgré les innombrables parcours reliant points de départ et d’arrivée, aucune image de la migration haïtienne n’est toutefois plus connue, voire 258 FRENCH REVIEW 91.2 Reviews 259 indélébile, que celle des boat people qui, depuis l’époque de la dictature duvaliériste, s’embarquent à bord des vaisseaux périlleux surchargés à destination de la Floride. Dans les premières pages du premier roman de Pierre-Dahomey, c’est justement une traversée pareille que Belliqueuse Louissant se remémore alors qu’elle avance sur une route étroite, “parta[nt] devant son destin” et “déterminée à aller mieux dans le meilleur des mondes”(15). Or, ce que l’on ne tarde à découvrir, c’est que la dénommée Belli ne se trouve point “à l’éden de l’autre côté des vagues” (16), le trajet anticipé ayant échoué au bout de trois jours en haute mer. Qui plus est, comme l’embarcation précaire semblait alors sur le point de couler, Belli a cru nécessaire de lancer son fils par-dessus bord. Les coast guards venus pour reconduire les survivants en Ha...
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.007 | 0.002 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.004 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.006 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.067 | 0.022 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".