Toni Morrison's Song of Solomon

Heir to oral tradition and African legends, Le Chant de Salomon is a return to the sources of the odyssey of the black people. Mixing burlesque and tragedy, between dream and reality, this fresco retraces the mythical quest of Macon Mort, a disillusioned teenager who went to the Deep South to look for hypothetical gold bars. But the real treasure he will discover will be the secret of his origins. To an air of eternity, Toni Morrison weaves the ancestral voices of slaves to compose a hymn to African-American memory. "Through the adventures of the young man, through also these African legends that survive, barely transformed, in the beliefs of black Americans, it is a true epic of the black people that we witness, from slavery to the civil rights movements of the 1960s." Éliane Vipois, Lire