Le Roman d’un Nègre à la recherche d’un titre, suivi d’un post-scriptum, dix ans après

Abstract

René Maran has several changes of mind over the title to be given to the novel which will eventually be published as Un homme pareil aux autres. For a considerable time, it was called Le Roman d’un Nègre and this study, first published in 2013 in the periodical Présence africaine, retraces the variations from its earliest mention in 1920 to the final version, adding in a postscript an update taking account of newly available manuscripts.

Keywords

• René Maran
• Variations on a title
• Roman d’un Nègre
• Journal sans date
• Un homme pareil aux autres
• Émile Nolly