«V taynikakh pamyati» - zakhvatyvayushchiy rasskaz o poiskakh tainstvennogo avtora romana «Labirint beschelovechnosti», vyzvavshego v Parizhe 1938 goda buryu emotsiy: odni nazyvali yego novym Artyurom Rembo, drugiye obvinyali v plagiate. V nashi dni kniga proizvodit neizgladimoye vpechatleniye na nachinayushchego senegal'skogo pisatelya DiyeganaLatiraFayye, i on zadayetsya tsel'yu vyyasnit', chto sluchilos' s etim bessledno ischeznuvshim chelovekom. Myslennoye puteshestviye v proshloye i real'noye - po sledam avtora - pogruzhayet Diyegana v podrobnosti davnikh dramaticheskikh sobytiy kolonial'noy epokhi, Pervoy mirovoy voyny, Kholokosta...
Roman predstavlyayet soboy smesheniye neskol'kikh zhanrov: eto i intellektual'nyy detektiv, i istoriya vzrosleniya, istoriya lyubvi, reportazh, filosofskoye esse, biografiya, politicheskiy pamflet. On zatragivayet fundamental'nyye voprosy o svyazi mezhdu tvorchestvom i zhizn'yu, o trudnykh otnosheniyakh mezhdu stranami Afriki i Zapada. No v pervuyu ochered' eto gimn lyubvi k literature i proslavleniye yeye neissyakayemoy sily.
