Overview
Region
Central Africa
Republic of the Congo
Era
Contemporary
Language
French
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
A dictator slaughters a resistance leader, but the man refuses to die properly, his body multiplies and is inherited by his daughter Martial, who becomes a guerrilla. A ferocious, hallucinatory political fable about African dictatorship and the indestructibility of resistance.
Literary Significance
A seminal work of Central African Francophone fiction; Labou Tansi is considered the most original voice of his generation