The short stories of Archéologie des trous take place in a South Africa oscillating between fantasy and raw realism.
A narrator with piercing and dumbfounded eyes auscultates the holes, which are everywhere: in the bodies, the desires, the ransacked earth, the erased lives and memories, the forgotten loves and massacres.
In this hallucinated fresco, one can just as well autopsy one's own corpse, live inside a cow, foment a revolt of migrant workers, discover a fallen empire at the bottom of a wasteland, engage in the traffic of lice, exploring a black hole by digging in your garden, or being present on the day when the white people left by the sea.
Translated from English by Elisabeth Malaquais and Jean-Baptiste Naudy
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