Alice's Legs

 

In ALICE'S LEGS, Nimrod Bena Djangrang, Poet and Novelist from Chad in both lyrical and very controlled style depicts with superb clairvoyance the excesses of a man subjugated by the legs of a woman.
At the gates of N'Djamena, the capital of Chad in the throes of civil war, people rush to find peace in the countryside.
It is at the heart of this tumult that a young French teacher who tries to join his wife and daughter meets one of his students - the object of his most unmentionable fantasies.
In front of him, so close to him, Alice's legs - and her unforgettable gait - attract him to the point of vertigo. Together they will live a few days on the borders of sensuality.
In the novel, with a subtle and precise language, Nimrod surveys the traces of memory, in particular that of childhood and adolescence.
In his obsession to the splendor of a body which,  to this day,  had only been dreamed, the protagonist of the book sadly realized that desire is fragile and carnal gratification has its limits – so does social reality.
 Nimrod was a teacher in his native Chad before moving to France where he devoted himself to writing. 
 He was editor-in-chief of the Magazine of Literature Review... the Aleph (1997 to 1999) and since 2003 has co-edited another Review Newspaper, The Agotem.