Folie et trauma dans Un jour de grand soleil sur les montagnes de l’Éthiopie : une esthétique de l’indicible

Abstract

In stable governments, different public institutions are responsible for containing madness on the margins of society. In the light of normative concepts, madness would be the opposite of reason. However, when the State itself is the source of psychosis, where does the border between madness and reason lie? Living under a dictatorship, individuals are trying in vain to rationalize the horror and the unspeakable. Fighting the chaos of the world, some then sink into dementia. The Congolese writer Pius Ngandu Nkashama has chosen to denounce tyranny through an aesthetic of madness that seems to be the only way to convey the magnitude of the tragedies experienced by thousands of Africans. In this article, I will bring to light the different faces of madness in his novel Un jour de grand soleil sur les montagnes de l’Éthiopie.

Keywords

• war
• madness
• aesthetic
• Africa
• trauma
• Ngandu Nkashama (Pius)