1938: African writer T. C Elimane, known as the black Rimbaud, publishes a novel entitled The Labyrinth of the Inhuman. Controversy breaks out, he is accused of plagiarism, the author disappears and his work becomes a cursed book. 2018: the young African writer residing in Paris Di?gane Latyr Faye discovers the lost novel and decides to investigate the missing author. With the help of an enigmatic woman and a group of young African writers, the protagonist embarks on a journey in search of a myth and perhaps also of himself. The clues take him to the Buenos Aires of Sur magazine, Gombrowicz and Sabato, to alleged acts of witchcraft, to a man divided between two cultures, to ghosts of the past and ghosts of the present. What happened to Elimane? What was hidden behind the scandal that sank his career?
Author: Mohamed Mbougar Sarr
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Editorial Anagrama
Published: 12/27/2022
Pages: 448
Weight: 1.32lbs
Size: 8.58h x 5.43w x 1.34d
ISBN: 9788433981257
Language: Spanish
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