Book
In Search of Yambo Ouologuem
(2023)
Abstract
After a Senegalese writer named Mohamed Sarr won the Prix Goncourt in 2022 for his novel La plus secrète mémoire des homme (The Most Secret Memory of Men), there has been renewed interest in the “Ouologuem Affair” in France and elsewhere. Sarr is the first black African to win the Prix Goncourt, whereas Yambo Ouologuem was the first black African to win the Prix Renaudot. Ouologuem won this award in 1968 for his novel Le devoir de violence (The Duty of Violence). In the wake of controversies associated with Ouologuem’s prize-winning novel, he returned to Mali in the mid-1970s, renouncing the life of a novelist and taking solace in the religion of his youth; he died in 2017. Christopher Wise’s In Search of Yambo Ouologuem documents his contacts with Ouologuem in 1997. It includes Wise’s original travel narrative, a follow-up travel narrative, an interview on Ouologuem with Al Hajj Sekou Tall, and an interview with Wise on the perils of translating Ouologuem into English.
Keywords
- Yambo Ouologuem,
- Mohamed Sarr,
- Le devoir de violence,
- The Duty. of Violence,
- The Most Secret Memory of Men,
- La plus secrète mémoire des hommes,
- Christopher Wise,
- In Search of Yambo Ouologuem
Disciplines
Publication Date
Spring April 6, 2023
Publisher
Sahel Nomad
ISBN
13 : 979-8390374078
Citation Information
Christopher Wise. In Search of Yambo Ouologuem. Washington DC(2023) Available at: http://works.bepress.com/christopher_wise/133/