« Assouvir sa rancoeur » : le vengeur désenchanté chez Bokar N’Diaye et Patrick Serge Boutsindi

This article analyses mechanisms of the organisation and the functioning of the discourse of vengeance in the francophone African novel through an examination of Bokar N’Diaye’s La Mort des fétiches de Sénédougou and Patrick Serge Boutsindi’s L’heure de la vengeance à Quenzé. From the avenger malgré lui to the disenchanted avenger, we discover a writing that explores the complexity of human emotions, such as anger, rancour, pride, honour, jealousy, rage and hate. In hypothesising that these two texts play with a fundamental ambivalence, reinforced by the semiotics of contempt, this article aims to study the methods through which writing links vengeance to social and cultural issues.