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The Palm-Wine Drinkard and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town (Hardcover)

by Amos Tutuola (Author)
3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)

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  • Hardcover: 130 pages
  • Publisher: Random House USA Inc; Black cat ed edition (15 Nov 1988)
  • ISBN-10: 0394621689
  • ISBN-13: 978-0394621685
  • Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 2,679,550 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars More than a folk tale, 24 Jun 1999
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This review is from: The Palm-wine Drinkard (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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5.0 out of 5 stars Surrealy inventive., 7 Sep 2006
By D. Aspel "Dan Aspel" (London) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: The Palm-wine Drinkard (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.
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1.0 out of 5 stars Oral tradition as text, 23 July 2009
By Jesper Jorgensen - See all my reviews
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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 Mythology, The Masks of God. But Amos Tutola offers no explanations and so the reader is left in the dark.

I'm not saying it isn't interesting, but just don't buy it in the hope you can read it and gain an understanding of some part of African culture, or The Human Condition, on par with Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" for instance.
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