Even if the meeting was cut short, because it was preceded by an interminable signing session, it only took a few minutes for Mohamed Mbougar Sarr to transport the Apostrophe auditorium into his philosophical world.
The work of memory and its initiation to literature introduced by the women of his family, the comedy of the dramas of our existence, the allegory of the African writer, the relationship between eroticism and writing were finely discussed. , sometimes maliciously. In front of nearly eighty people and in a reserved attitude, the author of The most secret memory of men revealed part of his own.
Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, winner of the Goncourt 2021 prize, in Chartres this Friday
For Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, these meetings with literature enthusiasts present this Friday, April 15, in Chartres, measure “a different time than that of writing, which has the interest of receiving the reflections of readers.”
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And they were varied, as much as the general public, attracted by the prestigious red headband. Some were just asking to be conquered. After a stay in Senegal, Paulette Ménalec, a 70-year-old resident of Chartres, decided to enter the auditorium to discover the novelist.
Curiosity is also what motivated Pierre-Jean Le Boudouil, 34, teacher in Seine-et-Marne who took advantage of his visit to Chartres to come and listen to the writer he discovered during interviews. which he considers “fascinating”.
Photo: Quentin Reix
As for the admirers, they did not lack qualifiers to describe the novel. “Confusing”, “labyrinthine”, “fantastically narrative”, “a thriller that carries us away”… The Goncourt prize-winning book has turned readers upside down, by the plurality of its plots, its styles, the places and the times that he crosses.
“It’s not in an attempt to play with the reader”, almost apologizes Mohamed Mbougar Sarr responding to a reader. “This is what makes the very pleasure of literature.”
Lea Trottier
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