La vie et demie
La vie et demie (transl. Life and a Half) is a 1979 novel by Sony Labou Tansi.
Plot
[edit]The novel is set in a post-colonial fictional country in Africa, Katamalanasia,[1][2] Providential Guide, reigns there. But the leader of the opposition, Martial, is a dead man who refuses to succumb to the assassination attempts, and who takes refuge in the body of his daughter, Chaïdana, leading to conflict.[3]
It is a visionary fable which, satirizes the politics based on torture, murder and the cult of personality. The text is also full of parody, like Rabelais Gargantua Thus, despite the hell and the horrors that it describes, the book is also carried by hope and strength.[4]
Bibliography
[edit]- Tansi, S.L. (2013). La Vie et demie. Cadre rouge (in French). Editions du Seuil. ISBN 978-2-02-111606-9.
- "Life and a Half". Indiana University Press. Translated by Alison Dundy. 2020-06-02.
References
[edit]- ^ "Livres | Africultures : Vie et demie (La)". Africultures (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "La Vie et demie - Sony Labou Tansi". Babelio (in French). Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ "Labou Tansi: Life and a Half". The Modern Novel. Retrieved 2024-04-24.
- ^ Moudileno, Lydie; Higginson, Francis (1998). "Labou Tansi's "La vie et demie," or the Tortuous Path of the Fable". Research in African Literatures. 29 (3): 21–33. ISSN 0034-5210. JSTOR 3820617.