Download or read book The Festival of the Greasy Pole written by René Depestre and published by Charlottesville : University Press of Virginia. This book was released on 1990 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel is one of the most important statements about the Duvalier regime in Haiti, written by a Haitian who played a prominent role in the revolutionary movement that brought down the Lescot regime in January 1946. The Festival of the Greasy Pole includes a scathing caricature of Papa Doc Duvalier and the bloodbath that he visited on his own country.