Verre Cassé Mabanckou, Alain

Editions du Seuil
Year of publishing: 2006
ISBN: 9782020849531
Language: French

Lauréat du Prix franco-israélien Raymond Wallier 2009.Au Congo, l’affaire Le Crédit a voyagé défraie la chronique : suscitant le scandale dans la population et parmi les sectes religieuses, le bar très crasseux qui porte ce nom est menacé de fermeture pour atteinte aux bonnes mœurs. Il faut dire qu’il est le refuge de toute une bande d’éclopés fantastiques aux surnoms évocateurs (Escargot entêté, Zéro Faute, Robinette, La Cantatrice chauve, L’Imprimeur…), personnages plus ou moins marginaux, réunis par une même passion de la bouteille. Au premier rang figure Verre Cassé, véritable patriarche des lieux, ancien instituteur qui possède un don inouï pour l’écriture et à qui le patron du bar a confié le soin de raconter, dans un cahier de fortune, les aventures inénarrables qui s’y déroulent, les prouesses loufoques de chacun des personnages qui le fréquentent. Dans une veine rabelaisienne, Alain Mabanckou nous donne à voir, grâce aux ressources d’une langue inventive et au talent d’ironiste, un portrait jubilatoire et revigorant de la réalité africaine. Parution simultanée en format de poche : African Psycho

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