Literary commitment and novelistic creation in the works of Mongo Beti
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description: Two tendencies underpin the works of Mongo Beti, right from his literary beginnings in 1953. First, an inflexible, uncompromising commitment that the writer raises as a sign identifying his novelistic aesthetics and his action as a public figure. Second, a channel permitting frequently productive exchanges between “secondary prose” (journalistic and political writing, essays, political pamphlets) and fictional production. All of which means, as the hackneyed saying goes, that the man and his works cannot be dissociated and that the struggles of the former are always echoed in the latter, and transposed, at a distance varying from great to small depending on the period. Following in the steps of Sartre and thus respectful of the ideal promoted by those who defended the literary review Les Temps modernes, Beti refused to be a silent cleric. If there be betrayal, in his view, it is to be found in the stubborn refusal to denounce patent injustice and failures to respect human rights. It is this ideological and scriptural line of conduct which unites all the works of Mongo Beti, from the “Colonial Chronicles” to the “Returned to Homeland” cycle. However, since he is not an official propagandist dedicating his works to a cause that might transcend him, Beti avoids the pitfalls of thesis novels, even if some texts, particularly those of the “Dzewatama Cycle”, are weightily didactic. His works are above all the impassioned and ironic testimony of more than 70 years of African history: often painful and tragic, sometimes droll.
landing page: https://theses.hal.science/tel-00671955
identifier: NNT: 2010LARE0010
keyword: colonisation
keyword: colonization
keyword: engagement-litteraire
keyword: ideologie
keyword: ideology
keyword: independances
keyword: independences
keyword: infoeu-reposemanticsdoctoralthesis
keyword: ironie
keyword: irony
keyword: literary-commitment
keyword: postcolonie
keyword: postcolony
keyword: protonation
keyword: roman-a-these
keyword: shslitthumanities-and-social-sciencesliterature
keyword: theses
keyword: thesis-novel
issued: 2026-05-27T22:54:57.768289
modified: 2026-05-27T22:54:57.768299
language: fr
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