Betty - Betty (English spelling) Mongo Beti

Japanese: ベティ - べてぃ(英語表記)Mongo Beti
Betty - Betty (English spelling) Mongo Beti

Cameroonian novelist. He studied at a Catholic missionary school, but was expelled for rejecting his faith while he was still there, and then transferred to a public high school. He later studied in France, studying at the University of Aix-en-Provence and the University of Paris. Unable to return to his homeland due to his anti-government activism, he taught at a French lycée for a while, but later returned to the United States and opened a bookstore. In his early novels, such as "The Cruel Town" (1954), "Poor Christ of Bomba" (1956), "The Mission is Finished" (1957), and "The King of Miracles" (1958), he comically satirized the limitations and contradictions of Christian evangelism in Africa, where there are different tribal customs. Other works he produced include a collection of anti-colonial essays, the novels Perpetu and the Unfortunate Habit (1974), Remembering Rubens (1974), and The Comical Defeat of a Clown (1979), as well as the series of novels in the 1980s The Two Mothers of Guillaume Ismaël Dzéwadama (1983) and The Revenge of Guillaume Ismaël Dzéwadama (1984). In 1978 he also founded the bimonthly magazine Blacks and Africans, which provided a forum for writers to publish their works until 1991.

[Tetsu Tsuchiya]

"The Poor Christ of Bomba" (translated by Yukitoshi Sunano) (1995, Gendai Kikakushitsu)

[References] | African Literature

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Japanese:

カメルーンの小説家。カトリック系ミッションスクールに学びながら、在学中に信仰を拒否して放校処分を受け、公立高校に転校、のちにフランスに留学、エクサン・プロバンス大学とパリ大学で学んだ。反政府的言動のため祖国に帰れず、しばらくフランスのリセで教鞭(きょうべん)をとっていたが、のちに帰国して書店を開いた。初期の小説『残酷な町』(1954)、『ボンバの気の毒なキリスト』(1956)、『使命は終わった』(1957)、『奇蹟(きせき)の王』(1958)などで、異質な部族慣習をもつアフリカでのキリスト教伝道の限界と矛盾を、コミカルなタッチで風刺した。ほかに反植民地主義の評論集や、小説『ペルペチュと不幸な習慣』(1974)、『ルーベンスを想起せよ』(1974)、『ある道化師の滑稽(こっけい)な敗北』(1979)、それに80年代の連作『ギョーム・イスマエル・ドゼワダマの2人の母』(1983)、『ギョーム・イスマエル・ドゼワダマの復讐(ふくしゅう)』(1984)などがある。また、1978年に隔月刊雑誌『黒人、アフリカ人』を創刊し、91年まで作家たちに発表の場を提供した。

[土屋 哲]

『砂野幸稔訳『ボンバの哀れなキリスト』(1995・現代企画室)』

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