The Brutality Of Fact

The Brutality Of Fact
K3MK Company | Karry Kamal Karry

With The Brutality of Fact, Karry Kamal Karry suggests a confrontation of the text Cicatrices by Alain-Kamal Martial. A text that is both poignant and fascinating, both in form and content. A text that makes you react, so universal is Alain-Kamal Martial's message. Without full stops or capital letters, with the comma as the only punctuation mark, Cicatrice attacks all the mechanisms for transmitting hatred, particularly language, thus confronting the reader with the barbarity of man.

In the continuity of Cicatrices, The Brutality of Fact questions the body, the renewed barbarity and the dream of men. Thus, it is thanks to the poetic universe impelled by Karry Kamal Karry that this text, in which nothing is signified but in which the tension of an event takes all its place, is recomposed and then finds a new dimension. The materiality fills in what is incomplete and hermetic on the side of the signified. In this work, the choreographer is interested in homogeneous and coherent visual devices that clarify the text by giving it body and intelligibility. Dance and theatre come together here in the same movement that makes them "turn to black light".

The Brutality Of Fact

Summary : Karry Kamal Karry explores the construction of identity in Cicatrices, Alain Kamal Martial's novel. Born of a rape committed by a group of militiamen, the narrator struggles both with the feeling of having to avenge his mother and with the desire to free himself from this history. A witness of filiation, he becomes aware of the fact that he will never be able to fulfil his duty to remember because he embodies the trauma suffered by previous generations. This text, at once powerful, immediate and terrifying, does violence to the reader and pushes him to reflect on his duty not to forget the injustices of the past.

Cicatrices is not strictly speaking a novel, it oscillates between drama and poetry, between narrative and speech.
The author uses very little punctuation, in favor of the rhythm of the words and a structure in verses, which greatly facilitates reading and understanding.

.... duty of memory, genocide, narrative identity, Comorian literature, Alain Kamal Martial, trauma, rape ... !