Les Sept Solitudes de Lorsa Lopez

by Sony Labou Tansi

Plusieurs jours après son assassinat, les appels au secours d’Estina Benta résonnent encore dans les rues de Valencia. Tous savaient que Lorsa Lopez s’apprêtait à tuer sa femme. Pas un n’a empêché le crime. Pour mettre un terme aux injustices et permettre aux femmes de retrouver l’honneur, Estina Bronzario décide d’organiser la résistance. Une liberté qu’elle payera au prix fort…Sony Labou Tansi est né en 1947 au Congo où il a vécu jusqu’à sa mort en 1995. Romancier, poète et dramaturge, il est l’auteur de six romans, dont La Vie et demie, qui est disponible en Points, et d’une douzaine de pièces de théâtre.« Un brillant portrait d’endroits plongés dans le chaos et d’endroits chaotiques comme le cœur humain. »The Nation

Genres: Africa, African Literature

200 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 1985

About the author

Sony Lab'ou Tansi (5 July 1947 - 14 June 1995), born Marcel Ntsoni, was a Congolese novelist, short-story writer, playwright, and poet. Though he was only 47 when he died, Tansi remains one of the most prolific African writers and the most internationally renowned practitioner of the "New African Writing." His novel The Antipeople won the Grand Prix Littéraire d'Afrique Noire. In his later years, he ran a theatrical company in Brazzaville in the Republic of the Congo.

Reviews

[Wendy Trevino · Rating 5 out of 5]

A whirlwind of prose against the police.

[Daniel Polansky]

An anarchic Rabelaisian satire of modern Zaire. Magnificent. The writing is brilliant, funny and strange and powerful. The winding story of a forgotten people seeking justice in an uncaring world achieves a universal profundity far beyond political parity, speaking to the highest concerns of the human being. Really enjoyed it.

[Eidyl6 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Permet une réflexion sur le.olan politique mais aussi du statut de la femme

[Fireside · Rating 3 out of 5]

the narrative style is not for me i guess
i feel like you must have background knowledge on Congo to truly get all the metaphors and then i’d imagine it’d be a pleasant read

[Rani · Rating 3 out of 5]

Really interesting new author for me.

[Felicia Diaz · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book is super bizarre ... dark and humorous in twisted and tribal/magical realist ways