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The Story of the Madman: A Novel - CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French Mongo Beti
The Story of the Madman: A Novel - CARAF Books: Caribbean and African Literature Translated from French
Mongo Beti
L'histoire du fou, translated here as ""The Story of a Madman"", is a comic satire of the fictional Chief Zoaeteleu and his favourite sons Zoaetoa and Narcisse. Mongo Beti uses this fable to illustrate the problems of a people's disintegrating values in a postcolonial state.
192 pages
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | August 29, 2001 |
| ISBN13 | 9780813920481 |
| Publishers | University of Virginia Press |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 147 × 227 × 19 mm · 333 g |
| Translator | Darnel, Elizabeth |