At night all blood is black author7/6/2023 ![]() ![]() He and his companion are forced to adopt a veneer of savagery, a vestige Alfa begins to embrace after Mademba is mortally wounded. Unfortunately, he and his best friend, Mademba, are recruited for the French war effort against Germany. His early illustrations of violence in the novel are abrasive even when compared to most notorious contributions to realistic wartime fiction, but Diop skirts dwelling in such memory in favor of understanding the fractured life that inevitably follows.Īlfa is a young Senegalese man with academic aspirations outside of Africa. A recollection of late childhood and carnage, Diop’s prose is less of the fever dream sometimes associated with similarly grotesque subjects and more an organic, direct recount of destruction years at a remove à la Joshua Oppenheimer’s The Look of Silence. Though David Diop anchors At Night All Blood Is Black in the plight of Senegal, the historical context of the novel is hushed by an examination of the psychological duality of conflict. IN THE BLOOD-MIRED trenches of World War I, an unwilling soldier ascends to an agent of death. ![]()
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