Abracadabrazza or the Novel of Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza's Monument

The Monument dedicated to Savorgnan de Brazza, more commonly called mausoleum, was officially inaugurated in Brazzaville in October 2005 in a polemical sharp context as well in Congo on subject of the "revisionism" of a company which was aiming rehabilitation the memory of the colonization, as in France on subject of the positive aspects of colonization. In this article was examined only the literary treatment of this polemics through three books published in 2009, an essay and two novels. The biography of Rene Maran, strongly empathic for the explorer, is exhumed sixty years after its first publication as attempt to make stronger and credible the image of the pioneer - pacificator and liberator of "his people". And if Patrick Besson, in And the River Will Kill the White Man, takes the mausoleum like simple background for an ethnocentric thriller or as an occasion to place some remarks, Patrick Deville, in Equatoria, places it in the center of his auto-fictional travel novel keeping a critical distance which makes his novel a true investigation of fieldwork about the controversial memory.