La mémoire tourmentée dans Un rêve utile

Abstract

This article examines the narrative and enunciative strategies employed in Tierno Monénembo's novel Un rêve utile to portray an ongoing traumatic memory. The study reveals that the narration presents a fractured, blocked, repetitive, and intrusive memory, highlighting the image of a narrator tormented by the memory of his father's hanging during the dictatorship of “Boubou Blanc” in a country called “Gui...”. Confronted with the challenges of truth, justice, and the “duty of memory,” Monénembo aims, through this work, to unveil the dark side of the First Republic of Guinea and symbolically render justice to the victims of the dictatorship by honoring their memory.