Translated fiction: Memory, history and the question of ‘sampling’ from other novels

All novels can be said to be in conversation with other novels. But while influences on the form and viewpoint of a novel are easily acknowledged, there are particular novels that more directly speak through borrowings. Notions of postmodernist intertextuality allow for all of this and in the novels of Kathy Acker, for example, unacknowledged quotations are seen as radical rather than robbery.

Novels continue to converse with novels: the Prix Goncourt-winning book The Most Secret Memory of Men by Mohamed Mbougar Sarr fictionalises a case similar to that of Ouologuem, a unique writer whose mixed fortunes should encourage, rather than deter, new readers for his complex and engrossing analysis of affliction and violence.

By arguing for a conservative Ukraine whose population would be loyal to a royal figurehead he became increasingly at odds with his time and his one-time supporters. Some pronouncements have extra relevance now and discussions about what nationalism means are of interest more generally. A series of short chapters convey the delimited space in which she lives as she ascribes human characteristics to the furniture in the room. She is happy at meetings because “there’s a sense of security” but when they end “I’m released back into my incomplete individuality”. Episodes of self-harm are disturbing to read but much of the writing is wistfully beautiful that many of the short chapters – some just a few words – are worth reading more than once.

The three boys once went on a fishing trip, which had an unfortunate outcome. Two of those boys return there as men with the son of the friend who can no longer join them. They catch and shoot a large ray for which, it transpires, they have no purpose. A group of local men are unimpressed by this wastefulness. The novel continues with fluid transitions between times and perspectives. Events occur before we learn the context for their outcome.

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