Love, Anger, Madness

Love, Anger, Madness (French: Amour, Colère et Folie) is a 1968 collection of short novels published by the Haitian author Marie Vieux-Chauvet. There are three novels in the collection: Love, Anger, and Madness. Love depicts a woman named Claire through her diary entries, Anger tells the story of a family whose land is confiscated by a group of men in black uniforms, and Madness follows a group of mad poets trapped in a shack by an invasion of "devils", a term they use to describe the local paramilitary forces.

Chauvet initially sent Love, Anger, and Madness to French feminist Simone de Beauvoir as three individual manuscripts. Beauvoir recommended their publication as a single volume to the publisher Éditions Gallimard, who published the collection in 1968. It was met with scorn from Haitian critics and, for unclear reasons, suppressed and withdrawn from circulation soon after its publication. After Chauvet's death in 1973, Love, Anger, Madness was awarded the Deschamps Prize in 1986 and saw several new editions and translations, including an official French reprint in 2005 and an English translation in 2009. Beninese playwright José Pliya adapted the book into a series of plays between 2007 and 2008.