%0 Journal Article %T Derek Walcott¡¯s Another Life: from Death to Celebration %A Dominique DELMAIRE %J E-rea : Revue ¨¦lectronique d¡¯¨¦tudes sur le Monde Anglophone %D 2007 %I %R 10.4000/erea.182 %X When he writes in Another Life that ¡°a man lives half of life, / the second half is memory¡± (243), Derek Walcott seems to be acutely aware that all autobiographies are, to some extent, written from ¡°that bourne from which no man returns,¡± imposing that ¡°auto-thanatographic perspective¡± which Ghyslain L¨¦vy (80) considers as another name for writing. The ¡°lived¡± part of Walcott¡¯s life may itself have been little else than death in disguise from the very outset, if we are to believe the poet¡¯s f... %U http://erea.revues.org/182