Cultural guest

Literature: Alain Mabanckou and "The business of reclining"

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The writer Alain Mabanckou in the studio at RFI (August 2022) © Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint / RFI

By: Catherine Fruchon-Toussaint

At the time of the literary season when 490 new French and foreign novels are appearing, today's cultural guest is the writer Alain Mabanckou, who has just published

Le commerce des lombés

, published by Seuil.

A fiction set in Pointe-Noire, Congo-Brazzaville, the author's hometown, where he imagines how a young man wakes up in a cemetery after his funeral and returns among the living for a final mission.

A social and political fable that plunges us into the fantastic world of the dead.

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from 1:30 p.m. UT.

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