- Unknown Binding: 125 pages
- Publisher: Faber (1962)
- Language English
- ASIN: B001OC09OU
- Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Though Tutuola did not consider himself a writer, more a collector of folk stories, this does not affect how affecting the 'Palm-Wine Drinkard' can be. I have never read anything quite so surreal, linguistically inventive or bizzarely compelling. Anyone with an interest in West African culture, folk tales in general or the stranger side of the human imagination should own a copy.
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!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
Format:Hardcover
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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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
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
More than a folk tale
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... Read more
Published on 24 Jun 1999
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