Peut-être: entre la littérature et la mort, la lenteur d’un tiret
Maybe: between literature and death, the slowness of a dash

Author(s): Simona Modreanu
Subject(s): Other Language Literature, Theory of Literature
Published by: Editura Junimea
Keywords: peut-être; hyphen; slowness; fatigue; being; différance;
Summary/Abstract: In The most secret memory of men, the unclassifiable text by the young Senegalese writer Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Prix Goncourt 2021, there is a most challenging phrase: “Yes, maybe; but life, I added, is nothing but the hyphen of the word maybe (peut-être)”. The two contradictory yet complementary thrusts meet in Sarr's book are like yin-yang, where the bitter yin incorporates a drop of uplifting cheerfulness and the idlely playful yang banters with a spark of metaphysical languor.

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