Chinua Achebe, requiescat in pace ...

[Keith Davis]

Have yet to read Mr. Achebe, but after reading this, it is imperative.

On Tue, Mar 26, 2013 at 7:55 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com
> wrote:

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> http://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/opinion/africas-voice-nigerias-conscience.html?hp&_r=0
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> On Sunday, March 24, 2013, Markekohut wrote:
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>> Nice remarks, IMHO.
>>
>> Sent from my iPad
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>> On Mar 23, 2013, at 9:51 AM, alice wellintown <alicewellintown at gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> > 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
>> >>
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