How to write immediacy without falling in the trap of unsophisticated representation of social and political reality? The Gabonese author Okoumba-Nkoghe responds to this question by writing a novel wherein social discourses and different styles overlap. To go behind the factual, he creates a universe, in which divine and human worlds coexist, but also a character, Mémoire, which structures the story and around which the whole socio-political criticism is made.