Abstract

Through the comical discourse and the enunciative heterogeneity that appear in Verre Cassé, Alain Mabanckou presents a completely disjointed universe in which disorder and intranquillity reign. This contribution, which aims to highlight the textual artifices that paint the precipice in which the majority of the characters got stuck, revealed that the dreamy and utopian speeches of the President General denote the decline of power. This disorder also manifests itself in the other characters of the novel. Following the inveterate customers of the Crédit a voyagé bar, a symbol of debauchery and drunkenness, we read the social, marital and professional decline embodied by L’Imprimeur, le type aux Pampers and Verre Cassé. This novel, written in one sentence, presents a triple image with a universal vocation: the demagogy of the leaders, the eternal vices and the literary references. This funny and unexpected Africa that Alain Mabanckou presents is synonymous with an awareness, ferment of emergence

Keywords

painting of decay, utopian discourse, life of debauchery, romantic characters, literary references