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The Story Of The Madman (Caraf Books: Caribbean And African Literature Translated From French),Used
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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 Englishspeaking world Beti's comic satire of the fictional Chief Zoateleu and his favorite sons Zoatoa and Narcisse. In a modern fable that Beti uses to illustrate the problems of a people's disintegrating values in a postcolonial state, Chief Zoateleu, a puppet under two dictatorial regimes, is swept into the frontline of politics, where his fortunes unravel. Along with his caustic portrayal of failed governmentclearly a reflection of his native CameroonBeti's realism provides an intriguing view of the struggle for balance between traditional life and imminent change in African culture.
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