Chinua Achebe, requiescat in pace ...

[alice wellintown]

Give _The Arrow of God_ a shot. I like it much better than TFA. And,
for GR fans, I think this novel resonates more than the others in the
"trilogy" as it centers on the lost cult, the religion.

In the US we tend to read TFA as a Greek Tragedy, but this, in my
opinion, misses the African or Black Beauty of the protagonist's
struggle, for he hangs himself before the White man hangs him, and
this, of course, is irony not tragedy.

That the author was made famous for this much  mis-read African novel
and his own mis-reading of Conrad is another irony.

On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:20 PM, Bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I'm also saddened by this news -  I've read and enjoyed Things Fall Apart several times.   I always meant to read further -  He was the Man-Booker International winner in 2007.
>
> Thanks Dave,
>
> Bekah
>
> On Mar 22, 2013, at 8:40 AM, Otto <ottosell at googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>> Oh, that's very sorry.
>>
>> I love his novel "Things Fall Apart" which still waits for a good
>> German translation; the existing one ("Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt",
>> edition suhrkamp 1983) isn't very good.
>>
>> 2013/3/22 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>>> Chinua Achebe (1930 - 2013)
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinua_Achebe
>>>
>>> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/23/world/africa/chinua-achebe-nigerian-writer-dies-at-82.html
>