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  • av Sony Labou Tansi
    224,-

    Sony Lab'ou Tansi's surreal portrait of a despised and incompetent regime is a biting, burlesque fable, incisive in its description of postcolonial colour and chaos.'At the time of night when dew begins to form on objects left outside, and while Fartanio Andra's insomniac cocks crowed, we heard a cry from the town square: "Help me! He's killed me!"'History has been silenced in this modern African state: only the voices of the dead cry out for justice. It is a cry answered by Estina Bronzario, the Woman of Bronze, determined to act against the political and moral corruption of male-dominated society.Murders escalate, crowds ebb and flow, and the years roll by. But all the while, the police never come... 'Central Africa's greatest writer.' New York Times'No greater genius than Sony Lab'ou Tansi.' Independent'Sublimely surreal allegory... Tansi [is] one of Africa's important voices.' Publishers Weekly

  • av Sony Labou Tansi
    161,-

    Spritzige Groteske auf dem grellen politischen Hintergrund eines fiktiven zeitgenössischen Terrorregimes. Grandiose Haupt- und eine Palette vollblütiger Nebenfiguren! Seine Eminenz Fürst Walante, blutrünstiger Diktator der Tropeninsel und ehemaligen Kolonie Bergotha, hat die männliche Bevölkerung ausgemerzt, bis auf gewisse 'Inseminatoren des Vaterlands'. Als ideologische Provokation gegenüber England, dem er schlampige Entkolonisierung vorwirft, inszeniert er die 'kartesianische Insemination' ("Lassen Sie den Motor aufheulen, meine Damen! Seien Sie hart, eine Nation, die gibt's nicht zum Arschtarif. Dergleichen entsteht im ausdrücklichen Schweiße der Schenkel!"). Gleichzeitig wird eine pompöse Hochzeit geplant und es intrigieren Neffe, Tochter und persönlicher Ratgeber. Alle sind verrückt, nach Gold, Liebe, Sex, Macht - bis die Intrige auffliegt. Die charmante Braut entpuppt sich als ein Bürger namens Yongo. Bevor Walante alle am Komplott Beteiligten vernichtet, feiert er noch mit seiner Ohnmacht Hochzeit.

  • - A Novel
    av Sony Labou Tansi
    214,-

    Sony Labou Tansi's fi rst novel now translated into English

  • av Sony Labou Tansi
    214,-

    Set in a fictitious African nation, this novel by the distinguished writer Sony Labou Tansi takes aim at the corruption, degeneracy, violence, and repression of political life in Africa. At the heart of The Shameful State is the story of Colonel Martillimi Lopez, the nation's president, whose eccentricity and whims epitomize the "e;shameful situation in which humanity has elected to live."e; Lopez stages a series of grotesque and barbaric events while his nation falls apart. Unable to resist the dictator's will, his desperate citizens are left with nothing but humiliation. The evocation of this deranged world is a showcase for the linguistic and stylistic inventiveness that are the hallmark of Sony Labou Tansi's work. This first English translation by Dominic Thomas includes a foreword by Congolese writer Alain Mabanckou that contextualizes the novel's importance in literary history and the significance of Sony Labou Tansi for future generations of writers.

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