La más recóndita memoria de los hombres

1938: African writer T. C Elimane, known as "the black Rimbaud", publishes a novel entitled The Labyrinth of the Inhuman. Controversy breaks out, he is accused of plagiarism, a huge scandal breaks out, the author disappears and his work becomes a cursed book. 2018: the young African writer residing in Paris Diégane Latyr Faye discovers the lost novel and decides to investigate the missing author. Pulling various strings, with the help of an enigmatic woman who keeps many secrets and a group of young African writers who drink, love and write wildly, the protagonist embarks on a journey in search of a myth and perhaps also of himself. same. The clues take him to the Buenos Aires of Sur magazine, Gombrowicz and Sabato, to two twins, to alleged acts of witchcraft, to a man divided between two cultures, to ghosts of the past and ghosts of the present. What happened to Elimane? What was hidden behind the scandal that sank his career? Who really was that writer who shone and disappeared like a shooting star?