'. . . brief, thronged, grisly and bewitching . . . written in English by a West African . . . Nothing is too prodigious or too trivial to put down in this tall, devilish story.' Dylan Thomas in the Observer
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Format:Paperback
Weird surrealistic fantasy stuff, but very compelling and an addictive joy. Unclassifiable, but rather similar to the "Famished Road" genre of Ben Okri. It must have made an enormous impact in the 1950s!
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By Olga
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Very nice and naive book. My first ecnounter with written African oral literature. Avery graphic tale! 'Palm Wine Drunkard' is simply pure, ludicrous and laughable fun.
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Format:Paperback
I bought the Bangla translated version of this book from a second-hand bookstore in Bangladesh. That one had biography of Amos Tutuola and a brief introduction about African folk tale, particularly the unique style of delivering the story by talking, acting and dancing. When I started reading the story itself, I found a class of literature that was completely different from East and West. This is not merely a folk tell, the writer has got unimaginable way of thinking in his brain. Read the first paragraph and you will find you are shocked. You can't stop reading until it is finished.
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Oral tradition as text
The Palm-wine Drinkard is a myth and cannot really be read as a novel. It is in style and contents very similar to the numerous myths relayed by Joseph Campbell in his volumes of... Read more
Published on 23 July 2009 by Jesper Jorgensen
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If you fell like traveling to a different world.
It's a really nice book,
If you like a different typt of reading this is for you.
There is always something happening in the book, every page has kind of a different... Read more
If you like a different typt of reading this is for you.
There is always something happening in the book, every page has kind of a different... Read more
Published on 6 Jun 2009 by mtpereira
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