On the occasion of the 2022/23 Métiers d’art CHANEL – DAKAR show that was held on December 6th 2022 at Dakar’s former Palais de Justice in Senegal, writer Alain Mabanckou opens up about how fictional characters have inspired him, from his teenage years until today.
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00:06 On “Book of My Mother ” by Albert Cohen
01:13 The origin of his love for reading
03:08 On “The Tunnel” by Ernesto Sábato
04:32 Alain Mabanckou's relationship with reading
08:27 “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, Gabriel García Márquez
11:49 Three books to take to a desert island
15:56 The power of books
16:20 The novel in the service of African history
17:52 On poetry
19:18 On “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck
20:39 On “The Palm-Wine Drinkard” by Amos Tutuola
22:34 “Notebook of a Return to My Native Land”, Aimé Césaire
23:23 Inspiring fictional characters
25:10 His relationship to the book as an object
27:00 Percival Everett, a contemporary author to discover
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