Les fantômes de Maurice et la littérature

Abstract

Barlen Pyamootoo is a strange Mauritian writer, who seems to corne from nowhere. Before the publication of the autobiographical Salogi’s, it was actually impossible to know what country he was from, when reading his books and their titles, Bénarès and Le Tour de Babylone. But his aim in writing is perhaps to disturb the reader and to make him think about the fact that identities are not essential realities but real fictions, which is precisely the revelation we can expect of literature.

Keywords

• Mauritius
• Indians
• stereotype
• hybridity
• fantasy