Posted by Luca Bankolé on October 27, 2013 at 11:35pm
Immortals of ancient nobility, Flâneur are rootless wanderers through time and place, forced to exist in the shadows of the modern world. Through a series of intimate recollections, an African immortal struggles to balance the burden of his longevity with the enduring folly of human cruelty—while reveling in the extreme sadism, masochism, intimacy, alienation and pleasure that marks his uncanny existence.Moving between Hurricane Katrina, the segregated American South, the excesses of the ‘90s and an idyllic past as a Madagascan fisherman, the narrator bears witness to the goings-on of man by throwing his eternal black body into the brutal fray.
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