Literarischer #21März

„The world is like a mask dancing. If you want to see it well, you do not stand in one place.“

#ChinuaAchebe #ArrowOfGod Tod 2013

I'm reading Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" which is probably only the second African authored novel I've ever read ("Half of a Yellow Sun" is the other) and like a) this SHOULD be a part of the National Curriculum syllabus for English Literature and b) I need to read more African novels because its great and its got a very different narrative style, which I am really enjoying.

#reading #african #ChinuaAchebe #novel

#7Books

1. The Secret Garden. Frances Hodgson Burnett
2. Things Fall Apart. Chinua Achebe
3. La Peste. Albert Camus. (Atheism, mostly)
4. South Riding. Winifred Holtby
5. Le otto montagne (The Eight Mountains). Paolo Cognetti
6. Go. Went. Gone. Jenny Erpenbeck
7. Honeymoon. Malachi Whitaker

#FrancesHodgsonBurnett #ChinuaAchebe #AlbertCamus #WinifredHoltby #PaoloCognetti #JennyErpenbeck #MalachiWhitaker

@zhivi

The other massively important resource is Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.

For once Mr.Achebe is a cornerstone of modern African literature. And for all the successes of Black American literature, African literature is a very different depth and reach.

And also Things Fall Apart confronts you not with abstract morals, but it's full of specifics. Customs, phrases traces of which you spot in diaspora. Vibes you recognise elsewhere.

#TFA #ThingsFallApart #ChinuaAchebe

@EJBrand Seven of my favorite authors:

#GeorgeEliot
#HenryJames
#MargeryAllingham
#MaryRenault
#ChinuaAchebe
#EdnaOBrien
#WilliamTrevor

#bookstodon

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