The Story of the Madman

by Mongo Beti

Book Overview

Widely acclaimed when first published in French in 1994, Mongo Beti's tenth novel, L'histoire du fou, continues the author's humorous yet fierce criticism of the colonial system in Africa and its legacy of governmental corruption.

Translated here as The Story of the Madman, the novel gives the English-speaking world Beti's comic satire of the fictional Chief Zoa teleu and his favorite sons Zoa toa and Narcisse. In a modern fable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813920493
• ISBN13: 9780813920498
• Release Date: August 2001
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.59 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.5"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher