La Plus Secrete Mémoire des Hommes de Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

• dimanche, 27 octobre

• 2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

• Virtual Meeting en français via Zoom - For Zoom meeting details or additional information, please email virginieperezwoods@ou.edu

• A masterful coming-of-age novel, a gripping investigation into the traces of a mysterious author led by a young African writer in Paris

  Prix Transfuge for best French-language novel

• In 2018, Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovered a legendary book in Paris, published in 1938: The Labyrinth of the Inhuman. We have lost track of its author, described in his time as "Rimbaud nègre", since the scandal triggered by the publication of his text. Diégane then sets out, fascinated, on the trail of the mysterious T. C. Elimane. From Senegal to France via Argentina, what truth awaits him at the center of this labyrinth?

• Without ever losing track of this quest that consumes him, Diégane, in Paris, hangs out with a group of young African authors: they all observe each other, discuss, drink, make love a lot, and wonder about the necessity of creation from exile. He will especially become attached to two women: the sulphurous Siga, holder of secrets, and the fleeting photojournalist Aïda...

• Perpetually inventive, The Most Secret Memory of Men is a stunning novel, dominated by the demand for a choice between writing and life, or even by the desire to surpass the question of face-to-face between Africa and the West.

• It is above all a love song to literature and its timeless power.