Nights of Yore: Things that only happen in Tana

Geocriticism, according to Bertand Westphal, tends to favour a multifocal perspective, which is exactly what Ravaloson's collection of short stories, Les nuits d'Antananarivo, does by opening up to the viewpoint of different characters upon a single space. The writer is no longer the ego-centred master of the narrative; he is an "alter-native" (Derrida), always slightly off centre, who is disguised as a cab driver or a waiter, a lover or a sibling in order to transgress social limits and gender based frontiers, but also literary canons. Nightfall does, of course, facilitate such confusion by allowing the formation of "ecotones" or transitional spaces leading towards hybridity.