Osvalde Lewat's second novel praised as a social fresco of individual lives and systems of power
"Un corps indocile," published for this year's rentrée littéraire, has been reviewed favourably by En attendant Nadeau, which reads it as an ambitious portrait of how personal destinies are shaped by socio-economic domination.
The literary review En attendant Nadeau has published a piece, titled "Tribulations en Chinafrique," on "Un corps indocile," the second novel by Osvalde Lewat, released as part of the 2026 rentrée littéraire.
According to the outlet's summary, the novel lays bare the ways individual destinies become entangled with the socio-economic systems of domination that condition them, and the review describes the result as a vast social fresco that is, in its words, particularly successful.
The title of the review points toward a setting or theme touching on China and Africa, but the source material available does not spell out plot, characters or publisher details, so no further specifics can be given here.
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