Beauty in Brutality: A Study of the Use of Imagery in David Diop’s At Night All Blood is Black

David Diop’s novel At Night All Blood is Black tells the story of Alfa Ndiaye who is a Senegalese soldier fighting along with so many other black African soldiers like himself against the German troops in the Great War. The novel brings to surface the horrors of war. The writer has adopted a style for his novel that is deeply symbolic and poetic. The present study focuses on the effectiveness of the use of imagery in the novel. The study considers the imagery that is figurative in nature. Taking insights from Cuddon’s (1994) discussion of imagery, the study tries to find out what are the sources of imagery in the novel. The study singles out the various types of images like the Visual, Olfactory, Tactile, Auditory, Gustatory, and Kinaesthetic, etc. The study finds out that the imagery is not merely decorative and that it serves to heighten the effect which the writer intends to create.