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  1. 652.

    Article published in Report of the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Historical Association (scholarly, collection Érudit)

    Volume 31, Issue 1, 1952

    Digital publication year: 2006

  2. 653.

    Laforte, Conrad

    Index général

    Other published in Les Cahiers des dix (scholarly, collection Érudit)

    Issue 38, 1973

    Digital publication year: 2014

  3. 654.

    Article published in Bulletin d'histoire politique (scholarly, collection Érudit)

    Volume 18, Issue 1, 2009

    Digital publication year: 2018

  4. 655.

    Other published in Laval théologique et philosophique (scholarly, collection Érudit)

    Volume 68, Issue 2, 2012

    Digital publication year: 2013

  5. 658.

    Article published in Études littéraires africaines (scholarly, collection Érudit)

    Issue 57, 2024

    Digital publication year: 2025

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    The novel Machin la Hernie by the Congolese writer Sony Labou Tansi relates the story of the dictator Martillimi Lopez, alias « Machin la Hernie ». Sexual abuses of the sadistic despot kill women because of their extrem violence, so much so that we could find echoes of the Sade's novel Les Cent Vingt Journées de Sodome. However, the two writers don't write sexuality in the same way : the immersion into obscenity is performed by Sade's lapidary sentences, while in Sony's novel, is produced by the hernious phrases. Therefore the syntax stretches and grows, as to grab all humans and things around the dictator. The devouring potentate of the dictator can be understood as an extension of sadism, according to Dany-Robert Dufour who establishes a link between sexual hybris and liberalism theory, based on the desire to relish and possess the world.

    Keywords: Machin la Hernie, Sony Labou Tansi, Sade, libéralisme, dictature, pornologie

  6. 659.

    Article published in Revue d'histoire de l'Amérique française (scholarly, collection Érudit)

    Volume 7, Issue 1, 1953

    Digital publication year: 2008

  7. 660.

    Other published in Les Cahiers des dix (scholarly, collection Érudit)

    Issue 42, 1979

    Digital publication year: 2013