LE ROMAN POLICIER AFRICAIN FRANCOPHONE: DU BANAL INVRAISEMBLABLE AU FANTASTIQUE
THE FRANCOPHONE AFRICAN DETECTIVE NOVEL: FROM THE COMMON UNIMAGINABLE TO THE FANTASY

Summary/Abstract: The Francophone African detective novel uses absurdity to reveal with hurtful cruelty the fate and tragic existence of a people at the edge of abyss. Thus, in this detective novel, the character at first sets himself up as a distinct being, and the story progressively becomes a place of breakup of the original being. One then attends a strange world. In the Francophone detective novel, one deals with a universe in with the irrationality borders the magico-religious thought. This paper aims at showing that the Francophone detective novel gives the opportunity to see a social and political structure of the African society in which the religious unity and magical practices appear as the only expression of a shared spirituality. One might come to the conclusion that fantasy and absurdity in the Francophone detective novel permit to reproduce the image of a social chaos which is the result of a historical disaster that involves the impossibility to give certain logic to the reality.

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