Bamako climax | Élizabeth Tchoungui

EAN : 9782259206143

Shaping : BROCHE

Pages : 406

Size : 132 x 201 mm

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BAMAKO CLIMAX

Élizabeth Tchoungui

Release date : 26/08/2010

Characters in search of their identity, Eliott, who is black, and Elio, who is Jewish, set off for Africa to find the woman they both love. But Africa is huge.
Elliott is a senior executive in Paris. French of West Indian origin, born in Africa, he is the victim of... Characters in search of their identity, Eliott, who is black, and Elio, who is Jewish, set off for Africa to find the woman they both love. But Africa is huge.
Elliott is a senior executive in Paris. French of West Indian origin, born in Africa, he is the victim of the social glass ceiling, but also of his own mental prison so eloquently described by Frantz Fanon: «I am black, and torrents of chains and rivers of spittle wash over my body.” Ready to to anything to succeed in a society where the elite remains white, he even falls in love with Eléonore, the perfect French girl, offspring of an illustrious industrial dynasty.
Elio is Italian. His mother is Catholic, his late father Jewish. He consciously delapidates the family's capital in Woody Allen DVDs and trips to Jerusalem, wallowing in his despair at not being completely Jewish in the ghetto of Rome. How can one exist with a split identity? And all the while, time is passing, and he's doing nothing.
But sheer chance places Elliot and Elio on the path of the same woman, Céleste. An Afro-European, she embodies the sum of their origins; she is their destiny. Both of them love her and ultimately leave her, for she reflects the inescapable flaw in each one's identity. Elliott senses the African side he has buried within. Elio sees the daddy's boy he is, looking for meaning in life, and is acutely aware of the frosty welcome his white family reserves for Céleste.
The day both Elliott and Elio realize the opportunity for fulfillment she represents to each, Céleste disappears. Separately, each one goes off to find her, but where to look? Is she in France, in Italy, somewhere else in Europe? Or did she return to Africa, the matrix, the ultimate refuge?

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EAN : 9782259206143

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Pages : 406

Size : 132 x 201 mm

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