by Alain Mabanckou · SEUIL · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782020847469
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«Mémoires de porc-épic» is the novel by Alain Mabanckou, published by Seuil in paperback (230 pages, in French).
The novel parodies a popular African legend according to which every human being has an animal double. A porcupine, alter ego of Kibandi, a young man from a village in the Congo, carries out a series of sinister tasks with its quills in a picaresque tale laden with irony about identity and the duality of the human being.
The book is the second installment of the trilogy begun with «Verre cassé». It won the Prix Renaudot 2006. It is part of the Cadre rouge collection from Seuil.
For readers of African fiction and contemporary Francophone literature, with a taste for ironic fables and social satire.
Alain Mabanckou is a novelist, journalist, poet, and academic, a French citizen born in the Republic of the Congo, he is currently a Professor of Literature at UCLA. He is best known for his novels and non-fiction writing depicting the experience of contemporary Africa and the African diaspora in France, including Broken Glass (2005) and the Prix Renaudot-winning Memoirs of a Porcupine (2006). He is among the best known and most successful writers in the French language, and one of the best known African writers in France. In some circles in Paris he is known as "the Samuel Beckett of Africa".
