Rencontre littéraire Marcel X Nanna : La fabrique de la masculinité

The Marcel literary meeting app is very happy to invite you aboard the Nanna barge to discuss these issues with the writer Abibou Diouf, who has just published The Age of Displeasing (Albin Michel), and the journalist and researcher Cécile Simmons.

In The Age of Displeasing, Abibou Diouf features the character of Fadel, a man torn between Paris and Dakar, between France, where he tastes a new freedom, and Senegal, where his life remains subordinate to the family hierarchy, the injunctions to virility and tradition. Fadel will meet another Fadel, his namesake, a marginal artist nicknamed “Fadel the Fool”, whose mode of existence defies the social order.

Cécile Simmons is a researcher. His research focuses on masculinism and online violence.

We invite you to a round table that will question the shaping of male identity and perhaps draw new ways of being man and living his relationships with others, far from the imposed models.

With:

Abibou Diouf was born in 1995 in Dakar. After the baccalaureate, he moved to France to continue his studies. With a double master’s degree in human resources and communication, he now lives in Paris, where he works as a headhunter. The Age of Displeasing is his first novel.

Cécile Simmons is a researcher specializing in issues of digital influence and radicalization. Her first essay dedicated to masculinism and the international anti-feminist, translated from English, will be published by Robert Laffont in March 2027.

Moderation:

Sébastien Reynaud was born in 1990. In 2012, he founds the media Zone Critique, which he co-directs until 2025. He now collaborates with the magazine Transfuge and the Marcel app, and hosts literary meetings in many festivals: Etonnants Voyageurs, Le Livre sur la Place, Livres dans la loop, Brive...