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Monsieur Senegal

by Antoine Rault, published on August 25, 2022 by Éditions Plon.

His favorite quote:

The skirmisher, a simple and new soul, is in short a big child who is educated on leaving the bush.

"War and the Senegalese tirailleur", medical thesis by Marcel Eugène Lacaze (1910).

Why this book?

  • Because we can only be sensitive to the fate

    of this character of Senegalese skirmisher demobilized after service rendered to France during the First World War, especially since he is the narrator with a dumbfounded look.

  • Because Amadou's common sense questions

    , with a kindness imbued with naivety, a society which, under cover of good intentions, maintains a modern form of slavery by refusing to emancipate itself through language.


The essentials in 2 minutes

The plot.

Amadou Lo, 20, is a so-called "Senegalese rifleman", demobilized after service in France during the First World War.

His return to civilian life in the provinces will be a new fight for his singular identity and his emancipation from racist clichés.

Characters.

Amadou Lo, ex number 8028, 6th company of the 73rd BTS (Senegalese Tirailleurs Battalion), Peul.

Robert Desvaux, major and doctor, his wife and servants.

Places.

Miray in Franche-Comte.

The time.

Six months in the year 1919.

The author.

Antoine Rault is known as a playwright.

In 2010, he signed his first novel

I want you to love me.

Monsieur Senegal

is his seventh novel.

This book was read in

empathy with Amadou's new fight.

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