Chinua Achebe, requiescat in pace ...

[alice wellintown]

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/opinion/africas-voice-nigerias-conscience.html?hp&_r=0

On Sunday, March 24, 2013, Markekohut wrote:

> Nice remarks, IMHO.
>
> Sent from my iPad
>
> On Mar 23, 2013, at 9:51 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com<javascript:;>>
> wrote:
>
> > 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<javascript:;>>
> 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<javascript:;>>
> 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 <javascript:;>>:
> >>>> 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
> >>
>
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