Ahmadou Kourouma, Entre Poetique Romanesque Et Litterature Politique - Paperback

by Patrick Voisin (Editor)

Ahmadou Kourouma made the decision to write engaged literature. But is engaging with politics in literature a case of confusing genres? With the passing of time, his first novel has taken on a new patina: it has become a literary occasion in itself, rather than literature for an occasion.

Author Biography

Patrick Voisin, the holder of an agregation in grammar and a professeur de chaire superieure, teaches French literature in preparatory classes for the ENS (Lycee Barthou, Pau). The member of the research laboratory Maghrebi, Francophone, Comparative Studies and Cultural Mediation at the University of Manouba, he is the author of works about Antiquity and has directed La Valeur de l'oeuvre litteraire, entre pole artistique et pole esthetique (Paris, 2012).