Tabataba suivi de pawana is the title of two short stories "Tabataba" followed by Pawana

Pawana

Pawana is a short story written in French by French author and Nobel laureate J. M. G. Le Clézio.-Historical Basis:According to the author this is a true story about the whaler Charles Melville Scammon...

(Awaité Pawana)in one book written in French

French language

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 by French

France

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 author and Nobel laureate

Nobel Prize in Literature

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 J. M. G. Le Clézio ."Tabataba" was written by Bernard-Marie Koltès and Hector Poullet.

Plot summary

Hector Poullet says that even if we choose the Creole

Antillean Creole

Antillean Creole is a creole language with a vocabulary based on French. It is spoken primarily in the Lesser Antilles. Its grammar and vocabulary also include elements of Carib and African languages. Antillean Creole is related to Haitian Creole, but has a number of distinctive features; they are...

 expressions which are basically from Creole of the archipelago of Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe

Guadeloupe is an archipelago located in the Leeward Islands, in the Lesser Antilles, with a land area of 1,628 square kilometres and a population of 400,000. It is the first overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. As with the other overseas departments, Guadeloupe...

, we do not always find the right translation in other varieties of Creole.[Other territories such as]:

• Martinique
  Martinique
  Martinique is an island in the eastern Caribbean Sea, with a land area of . Like Guadeloupe, it is an overseas region of France, consisting of a single overseas department. To the northwest lies Dominica, to the south St Lucia, and to the southeast Barbados...
  
  
• Guyana
  Guyana
  Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
  
  
• Dominica
  Dominica
  Dominica , officially the Commonwealth of Dominica, is an island nation in the Lesser Antilles region of the Caribbean Sea, south-southeast of Guadeloupe and northwest of Martinique. Its size is and the highest point in the country is Morne Diablotins, which has an elevation of . The Commonwealth...
  
  
• St. Lucia

have their own creole languages which each have their own words that need to be drawn into the story to help retelling.

Theater

"Tabataba" was originally written for the stage by Bernard-Marie Koltès and was published by Koltes Edicion Conmemorativa, 1996.