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10 de abr. de 2020 · The Death of Comrade President is a glorious, funny, surreal novel, set in communist Congo-Brazzaville in the 1970s. It is also a profound study of tyranny and individual choice.
The Death of Comrade President, Mabanckou’s latest outing, provides a remedy, leaning less on convention and more on the realism that made pieces like Broken Glass so defining.
In political contexts, comrade means a fellow party member, commonly left-wing. The political use was inspired by the French Revolution, after which it grew into a form of address between socialists and workers.
The Death of Comrade President, Mabanck-ou’s latest outing, provides a remedy, lean-ing less on convention and more on the realism that made pieces like Broken Glass so defining. Comrade President leans heavily into Mabanckou’s backgrounds, serving in part as a welcome expansion to his 2015 mem-oir, The Lights of Pointe-Noire, (see WLT
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12 de mar. de 2020 · In March 1977, just before the arrival of the short rainy season, Comrade President Marien Ngouabi is brutally murdered in Brazzaville, and not even naïve Michel can remain untouched.
29 de set. de 2020 · In ‘The Death of Comrade President,’ A Sophisticated Portrait of a Country in Crisis. By Kevin Canfield. Mabanckou imbues his narrative with the qualities of a minor epic, placing his young protagonist at the heart of a frightening yet wry tale about politics and murder, family and loyalty, necessary lies and storytelling itself.
