Jean Pliya’s La Secrétaire Particulière as an archetype of Satire

Abstract

This form of creative art called literature is a principal tool for socio-political and economic struggles among other things. It paints life with a view to share human experiences, feelings, imaginations, observations, findings, predictions and suggestions for practical realities. In this paper, we attempt to elucidate Jean Pliya’s La Secrétaire Particulière as an archetype of satire. The purpose is to facilitate the comprehension of African Literature of French expression. Our review is premised on pragmatic approach, which holds that literature and other forms of creative arts have certain functions to perform in contributing to the development of human societies through moral or behaviour re-orientation. The paper concludes that satire is an essential mechanism in the hands of many African writers to achieve their motives.

Keywords: Literature, creative arts, satire, fiction, non-fiction, society, development.