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This novel,a classic of African literature, still speaks to us today. We look back at Africa’s grotesques like Idi Amin of Uganda, Bokassa of the Central African Empire or Zaire’s Mobutu, but now we must also look around us at comic opera heads of state posturing extravagantly on our domestic stages. We need this cleansing laughter.
“Is the funny bone a literary erogenous zone? Anyone who thinks so will certainly be turned on by Henri Lopes’ The Laughing Cry . . . this writer has the same feel for the literary burlesque that Woody Allen has for the philosophical kvetch.” —San Francisco Examiner
Henri Lopes
Écrivain, homme politique et diplomate congolais, Henri Lopes est né en 1937. Il est actuellement ambassadeur de son pays à Paris. Il a obtenu le Grand Prix de la Francophonie de l’Académie française en 1993. Toute son œuvre célèbre l’Afrique, le mariage des cultures et le métissage. De lui, les Éditions Gallimard ont déjà publié Ma grand-mère bantoue et mes ancêtres les Gaulois (Continents Noirs, 2003) et Une enfant de Poto-Poto (Continents Noirs, 2012).
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