Dualité épistémologique de la figure de l’« homme noir » dans l’oeuvre d’Henry Bauchau

n this article, we propose an account of the intimate and societal evolution’ “staging” of the “black man” figure – a major and recurrent literary topos in the work of Henry Bauchau – through which he traces and analyzes the ambiguous feelings and behaviors that characterized and marked his generation struggling with the dramas engendered by the Second World War, the hurtful constraints of a society with watertight values, the hope of a balanced life and the affirmation of absolute evil.