Telling/thinking Africa in a decolonial context Dialogue between Ngugi wa Thiong’o and Sylvain Prudhomme

Published after the translation of Décoloniser l’Esprit, Les Grands can be read as a "thinking fiction" in dialogue with Ngugi wa Thiong’o’s decolonial thought. This study examines the terms of this dialogue, its limits and aporias, and seeks to show how the fiction resonates with other contemporary postcolonial and decolonial theories. Les Grands thus invites us to a decentered reading of categories such as the "French novel" and the "francophone novel".