Bøger af Mohamed Mbougar Sarr

A novel about cowardice and courage in the face of repression, from a powerful new voice of French-African literature

A polyphonic tale of immigration and community by the winner of the 2021 Prix Goncourt

THE GLOBAL LITERARY QUEST BESTSELLER'A masterpiece' The Times'The style as well as the sweep is Bolaño-esque' ObserverParis, 2018. Diégane Latyr Faye, a young Senegalese writer, discovers a legendary book titled The Maze of Inhumanity. It has an immediate hold over him. No one knows what happened to the author, T.C. Elimane, who was accused of plagiarism, his reputation destroyed by the critics.Obsessed with discovering the truth about Elimane's disappearance, Faye weaves past and present, countries and continents, following the author's labyrinthine trail from Senegal to Argentina and France and confronting the great tragedies of history.Will he get to the truth at the centre of the maze?A gripping literary quest novel and a masterpiece of perpetual reinvention, The Most Secret Memory of Men confronts the impact of colonialism and neo-colonialism, the holocaust in Europe, dictatorships in South America and the Caribbean, genocide in Africa, and collaboration and resistance everywhere. Above all, it is a love song to literature and its timeless power.WINNER OF FRANCE'S MOST PRESTIGIOUS AWARD, THE PRIX GONCOURTTranslated by Lara Vernaud.

Modtager af Frankrigs store litteraturpris, Goncourt-prisen 2021. Mohamed Mbougar Sarrs roman om jagten på en gådefuld forfatter er et mesterligt litterært mysterium fra en ny stor stemme i verdenslitteraturen. Diégane er en ung forfatter, som bor i Paris, hvor han hænger ud med en gruppe andre afrikanske eksilforfattere, som ynder at diskutere bøger og filosofi, gå i seng med hinanden og drikke vin.Da han hører om et uopdriveligt mesterværk fra 1930’erne af en senegalesisk forfatter, T. C. Elimane, beslutter Diégane sig for at opklare bogen og forfatterens skæbne. I sin samtid blev Elimane udråbt til en litterær sensation og kaldt ”den sorte Rimbaud”, men efter en hetzlignende skandale forsvandt han tilsyneladende sporløst.Sekunderet af senegalesisk litteraturs grand old lady, der har en personlig interesse i Elimanes historie, begiver Diégane sig ud på en labyrintisk rejse. Den bevæger sig over tre kontinenter og op gennem en historie, hvor kolonialisme og to verdenskrige har sat sine spor – fra Paris til Amsterdam, Buenos Aires og Dakar. Menneskets dybeste erindring er en dybt original dannelsesroman, en radikal undersøgelse af kolonialismens komplekse arv og en detektivhistorie fortalt med humor, vid og overskud. Og først og fremmest er romanen en kærlighedserklæring til litteraturen selv. ”Den ideelle roman.” – Le Monde

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 Diégane 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?