Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, a French-speaking Senegalese writer, has overcome the curse of the September favorites, who often leave empty-handed in November.
At 31 years old, the one who appeared on most of the prize lists wins, with his fourth novel,
La Plus Secret Mémoire des hommes
, published by Philippe Rey, the most prestigious literary award.
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From September 9, in
Le Figaro littéraire
, Astrid de Larminat was enthusiastic:
“How comforting it is to discover a young writer who thirsts for the absolute, who believes that literature is a way of deciphering the world and the human destiny!
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr has put in this flamboyant intelligence novel all his existential torments. "
Reading this novel of mad ambition and its complex, brilliant construction, we quickly knew that we had the big book of this new school year.
A rich novel
The story?
In 2018, a young Senegalese writer, Diégane Latyr Faye, living in Paris, discovered
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