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Paule Constant, on the waves of an African memory
The novelist Paule Constant publishes "The blindness of the rivers" with Gallimard editions.
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By: Jean-François Cadet Follow
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Paule Constant offers us with
River blindness
, a journey to the heart of Africa.
It recounts the plunge of a Nobel Prize in Medicine into his African childhood.
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It is a trip that lasts two days and two nights.
A return to the sources and to the country of his childhood for a great French scientist, Nobel Prize in Medicine "
better known than Brigitte Bardot and Che Guevara combined
", a dive into himself and reluctantly in his past and that of his father, a former military doctor of the colonial wars.
At his side, a Gbaya driver, an experienced photographer, and a young journalist who is discovering Africa for the first time and who will see many certainties and received ideas waver.
The new novel by Paule Constant, from the Académie Goncourt is instructive, moving and sometimes very funny.
River Blindness
, by Paule Constant, is published by Gallimard.
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