At the time of the literary season when 490 new French and foreign novels appear, today’s cultural guest is the writer Alain Mabanckou, who has just published The elongated trade, 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.
The full interview can be found at Literature without borders from 1:30 p.m. UT.
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