One morning in September 1890, a Belgian surveyor, commissioned by his King to dismantle Africa, left Leopoldville for the North. With the authority of the stars and a few learned instruments, Pierre Claes's mission was to materialize, in the wilderness, the exact outline of what Europe then called "progress." On board the Fleur de Bruges, gliding on the Congo River, Bantu workers and Xi Xiao, a Chinese master tattoo artist, executioner specializing in the art of human cutting, accompany him. He sees the future in everything: Xi Xiao knows what work of abomination is colonization, and he knows that he will love the love geometer. Darkness is the story of a mutilation. Kawczak presents an incredible adventure novel crossed by eroticism, an opera of desire and pain imbued with magical realism, which from Northern Europe to the heart of Africa flows like a tear of blood down the face of the world.
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ISBN:2924898498
ISBN:9782924898499
Physical Description:303 pages : map ; 20 cm print
Publisher:Saguenay, Québec, Canada : Éditions La Peuplade, [2020]
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