Ouologuem’s Forgotten Farewell: “The World is False”

What follows is an excerpt from my forthcoming book, Thresholds: A “Complete” Table of the Borrowings in Yambo Ouologuem’s Le Devoir de violence, and Why They Matter, to be published by Liverpool University Press in 2024. As the title indicates, I have endeavored to catalog all the borrowings in this hapax of a novel, to comment on them, and to develop a theory of their purpose(s). The borrowings are vastly more extensive than most readers and scholars have realized. Taken together, they are ...