This article aims to highlight the different manifestations of wandering and their impact on the characters. From an approach based on narratology and sociocriticism, the article has shown that the text gives to read a scriptural wandering which is manifested by spatio-temporal anachronisms and intercalated narratives. This form of wandering is the reflection of the narrator’s physical wandering, which prefigures itself as the manifestation of a consciousness that has lost its bearings and is seeking to define itself. The tumultuous course of the narrator also refers to a mental wandering in a crooked universe marked by the inhuman actions of the genociders who prefigure animality. Through the writing of wandering, the article shows that the novel is an outlet for the suffering and frustration of the characters. Therefore, it promotes what founds the need for a new humanism.