1946: René Depestre published Gerbe de sang, a collection of poems that reflected the disillusioned mood of the post-revolutionary period.

1946: René Depestre published Gerbe de sang, a collection of poems that reflected the disillusioned mood of the post-revolutionary period. The work explored the themes of a “rotten world” and the need for fertile despair to drive social change. He viewed the arrival of the black middle-class government as the necessary vanguard for the proletariat and the peasantry. He believed this political shift would prepare the way for a total transformation of social values and living conditions in Haiti.