Yambo Ouologuem

Yambo Ouologuem (22 August 1940 – 14 October 2017) was a Malian writer. His first novel, Le devoir de violence (English: Bound to Violence, 1968), won the Prix Renaudot. He later published Lettre à la France nègre (1969), and Les mille et une bibles du sexe (1969) under the pseudonym Utto Rodolph. Le devoir de violence was initially well-received, but critics later charged that Ouologuem had plagiarized passages from Graham Greene and other established authors such as André Schwartz-Bart. Quotes Once, only once, while dipping the doll in the liquid, in the mud, the water was hot, I dipped the doll, there was a moment, I was very afraid… a mystical moment, I don’t know how to name it, but the doll took me almost to the origin of the world. I felt that I was losing my identity. Fabula interview with Ouologuem from the 1970s. Our eyes drink in the sun’s brilliance, and, defeated, are astonished to weep. 1976 interview published in Poésie 1, and the interview is reproduced by Les Hommes sans épaules. I’m not trying to make a name for myself at all. Nor am I concerned with defining myself. I’m not interested in myself in the slightest. I prioritize the message itself, rather than the individual’s unique situation and its arbitrary definition. 1976 interview published in Poésie 1, and the interview is reproduced by Les Hommes sans épaules. I think we write because there comes a point when we reach a density of being, when we feel essentially impoverished. Perhaps it's a way of having accessed anguish. We live in a consumer society. But every society is a consumer society, otherwise it wouldn't survive. We are caught between two absurdities: either perish, or live in the alienation that makes us all, if not blacks or German Jews, at least luxury workers. There is a neurotic situation there. We feel like the blind man who gropes his way and who has neither hands nor arms to control the world, but simply a soul. 1976 interview published in Poésie 1, and the interview is reproduced by Les Hommes sans épaules. External links Category:1940 births Category:2017 deaths Category:Authors from Mali