{"id":12568,"date":"2021-08-14T21:10:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:10:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/senegal\/?p=12568"},"modified":"2021-08-14T21:07:39","modified_gmt":"2021-08-14T21:07:39","slug":"elgas-toute-purete-identitaire-est-une-forme-dillusion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/senegal\/dossiers\/elgas-toute-purete-identitaire-est-une-forme-dillusion","title":{"rendered":"Elgas : \u00ab\u00a0Toute puret\u00e9 identitaire est une forme d\u2019illusion \u00bb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #ff6600\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/\">Africa-Press<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/senegal\">Senegal<\/a>. <\/strong><\/span>Dans premier roman, \u00ab M\u00e2le noir \u00bb, le sociologue s\u00e9n\u00e9galais met en sc\u00e8ne un narrateur au parcours amoureux tout aussi sinueux que ses tiraillements identitaires. Un regard plein d\u2019acuit\u00e9 et d\u2019autod\u00e9rision sur les questions soci\u00e9tales.<\/p>\n<p>Elgas, de son vrai nom El Hadj Souleymane Gassama, a \u00e9t\u00e9 r\u00e9v\u00e9l\u00e9 en 2015 avec Un Dieu et des M\u0153urs, r\u00e9cit de voyages o\u00f9 il jetait une lumi\u00e8re crue sur la soci\u00e9t\u00e9 s\u00e9n\u00e9galaise \u00e0 travers le regard de plusieurs personnages. M\u00e2le noir conserve ce style incisif mais se concentre sur un seul narrateur. Si ce dernier n\u2019est jamais nomm\u00e9, on peut toutefois lui trouver des similitudes avec l\u2019auteur, n\u00e9 \u00e0 Saint-Louis en 1988 et qui a grandi \u00e0 Ziguinchor.<\/p>\n<p>La premi\u00e8re ressemblance, qui ouvre le roman, est la th\u00e8se que le personnage s\u2019appr\u00eate \u00e0 soutenir \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Caen\u2026 Son titre, La Dette originelle, pourrait aussi qualifier les relations du narrateur avec sa m\u00e8re. Il la revoit pour la premi\u00e8re fois depuis plusieurs ann\u00e9es \u00e0 l\u2019occasion de cette soutenance et en ressent une certaine culpabilit\u00e9 sur sa fa\u00e7on de vivre, aux antipodes de ce qu\u2019elle aimerait\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab Aussi loin que je me souvienne, on ne m\u2019a jamais appris \u00e0 aimer \u00bb, tel est l\u2019incipit de M\u00e2le noir. Un premier roman sur le mal-amour, aux nombreuses racines et ramifications, intimes, culturelles, soci\u00e9tales et politiques. Rencontre avec son auteur.<\/p>\n<p><b>Jeune Afrique :<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Tout comme votre narrateur, vous avez soutenu une th\u00e8se \u00e0 l\u2019universit\u00e9 de Caen, le 21 d\u00e9cembre 2018, intitul\u00e9e La Dette originelle \u2013 Analyse des ressorts de la solidarit\u00e9 des immigr\u00e9s s\u00e9n\u00e9galais en France avec leur pays \u00e0 travers le don, l\u2019engagement et l\u2019entrepreneuriat. \u00c0 quel point votre roman est-il autobiographique ?<\/p>\n<p><b>Elgas :<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Le terme autobiographique, m\u00eame s\u2019il n\u2019a pour moi aucune connotation n\u00e9gative, me para\u00eet \u00e9triqu\u00e9. Il n\u2019est pas en mesure de rendre justice \u00e0 la panoplie d\u2019\u00e9motions et de situations qui traversent le roman. L\u2019on peut dire, sans h\u00e9sitation, que je pr\u00eate beaucoup \u00e0 ce narrateur, et qu\u2019il me prend aussi \u00e9norm\u00e9ment ! Dans cette relation, de don, de legs et d\u2019arrachement, il y a, me semble-t-il, un d\u00e9doublement, exercice \u00e0 mon sens tr\u00e8s int\u00e9ressant en termes de construction romanesque et de g\u00e9mellit\u00e9 inassum\u00e9e. Il y a, dans l\u2019angoisse identitaire, un mal-dosage de l\u2019amour de soi et des autres. \u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Africa-Press &#8211; Senegal. Dans premier roman, \u00ab M\u00e2le noir \u00bb, le sociologue s\u00e9n\u00e9galais met en sc\u00e8ne un narrateur au parcours amoureux tout aussi sinueux que ses tiraillements identitaires. Un regard plein d\u2019acuit\u00e9 et d\u2019autod\u00e9rision sur les questions soci\u00e9tales. 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