LA REINE DES POMMES DE CHESTER HIMES ET TROP DE SOLEIL TUE L’AMOUR DE MONGO BETI : ENTRE TRUCULENCE ET EXCENTRICITÉ
CHESTER HIMES’S LA REINE DES POMMES AND MONGO BETI’S TROP DE SOLEIL TUE L’AMOUR : BETWEEN FARCE AND EXCENTRICITY

Summary/Abstract: La Reine des pommes and Trop de soleil tue l’Amour are detective novels that focus on writing itself through mechanisms of derision (humoristic, ironical and ludicrous). Humor and irony are therefore literary technics used by Chester Himes and Mongo Beti so as to depict their respective societies in full decline. From this point of view, this paper aims at showing that humor and irony are at the service of absurdity and back the grotesque at Chester Himes’s and Mongo Beti’s. Henceforth, we may come to the conclusion that La Reine des pommes and Trop de soleil tue l’Amour drew inspiration from grotesque and satire in order to describe none-sense with the intention of bringing out its meaning.

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