'David Diop's powerful novel, not much more than novella length, is full of echoes and portents.Ce n'est pas un roman sur la guerre, c'est plutôt un livre sur ce que Montaigne appelait « la soudure fraternelle ».' - Tahar Ben Jelloun, Le Point Écrit dans un style simple, presque naïf, mais étonnant, il nous raconte la tragédie des tranchées avec une délicatesse émouvante. If the measure of a book's success is to be quite unlike anything else, then At Night All Blood Is Black deserves the bouquets and trumpets after all.' - John Self, The Observer That is why it has appealed to so many prize juries: it rewards rereading, which recasts the violent opening chapters in a new, even darker light. 'As Ndiaye's very identity begins to crack and slip, the brilliance of David Diop's conceit becomes clear and the reader must reconsider the story backward as well as forward.(.) The novel, though originally written in French, is grounded in the worldview of Senegal's Wolof people, and the specificity and uniqueness of that culture's language comes through even in Anna Moschovakis's translation.' - Chigozie Obioma, The New York Times Book Review He takes his character into the depths of hell and lets him thrive there. Diop realizes the full nature of war - that theater of macabre and violent drama - on the page. 'But this book is about more than a lone man's spiritual burden.(.) Die Leser sollen sich fragen, worauf die Darstellung des „Anderen“ in Konfliktsituationen eigentlich fuße.' - Wolfgang Schneider, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung

Er wirkt eher wie eine Art grässlicher Konzeptkünstler, der mit abgehackten Händen und Gedärmen arbeitet, um das rassistische Klischee vom wilden Schwarzen überzuerfüllen.

'Als Ich-Erzähler erscheint Alfa aber durchaus nicht verrückt.

Il est original car il donne la voix à ceux qu'on a peu entendus, ces Africains recrutés pour leur courage et leur capacité à terrifier l'ennemi.' - Bruno Corty, Le Figaro

'Avec son style oral, naïf, ses expressions répétées comme un mantra, le roman de Diop envoûte plus sûrement qu'un classique roman sur la guerre.

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