ORCHESTRER LE RÉEL ET LE SURNATUREL: DISSONANCES PASSAGÈRES ET CONSTITUTIVES DANS LE ROMAN AFRICAIN CONTEMPORAIN

The constant presence of supernatural events in the Francophone African novel is an issue on which many critics have drawn attention. However, this issue has never been sufficiently examined. The objective of this dissertation is to detect the intermittent nature of these references to the sphere of the paranormal world and analyze a variety of narrative insertion of these elements in the Contemporary African novel written in French. The study highlights how, through a peculiar way of presenting the supernatural, the text produces an effect of dissonance on several levels. The creation of such a state of ambivalence within the narrative, the formal analysis highlights, looks like a stretch of the specificity of the African novel writing of the last thirty years.