Waiting for the wild beasts to vote

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Waiting for the wild beasts to vote

Ahmadou Kourouma ; translated from the French by Frank Wynne

Heinemann, 2003

タイトル別名

En attendant le vote des bêtes sauvages

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内容説明

The story of Koyaga, dictator and president of the Gulf Coast, an imaginary former French African colony, is told by Bingo, his sora, part storyteller, part court fool. Bingo tells of Koyaga's father, born in an obscure and backward mountain tribe, which he leaves for success as a wrestler, and heroic exploits on the Somme as a French fusilier only to die of hunger in a French colonial prison; and of Koyaga himself, a French solider in Vietnam and Algeria, and then the leader of a coup that overthrows a shortlived post colonial democracy. Koyaga is part an archetypal third world dictator, part hero of a folktale his story is told in a prose of haunting simplicity, in a novel that by turns brings to mind Gabriel Marquez and Giles Foden.

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詳細情報

  • NII書誌ID(NCID)
    BB18099392
  • ISBN
    • 0434008141
  • 出版国コード
    uk
  • タイトル言語コード
    eng
  • 本文言語コード
    eng
  • 原本言語コード
    fre
  • 出版地
    London
  • ページ数/冊数
    445 p.
  • 大きさ
    20 cm
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