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More than two million copies of Things Fall Apart have been sold in the United States since it was first published here in 1959. Worldwide, there are eight million copies in print in fifty different languages. This is Chinua Achebe's masterpiece and it is often compared to the great Greek tragedies, and currently sells more than one hundred thousand copies a year in the United States.
A simple story of a "strong man" whose life is dominated by fear and anger, Things Fall Apart is written with remarkable economy and subtle irony. Uniquely and richly African, at the same time it reveals Achebe's keen awareness of the human qualities common to men of all times and places.
Chinua Achebe was a novelist, poet, professor at Brown University and critic. He is best known for his first novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), which is the most widely read book in modern African literature.
Raised by Christian parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at school and won a scholarship for undergraduate studies. He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention for Things Fall Apart in the late 1950s; his later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe writes his novels in English and has defended the use of English, a "language of colonizers", in African literature. In 1975, his lecture An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's "Heart of Darkness" became the focus of controversy, for its criticism of Joseph Conrad as "a bloody racist".
When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe became a devoted supporter of Biafran independence and served as ambassador for the people of the new nation. The war ravaged the populace, and as starvation and violence took its toll, he appealed to the people of Europe and the Americas for aid. When the Nigerian government retook the region in 1970, he involved himself in political parties but soon resigned due to frustration over the corruption and elitism he witnessed. He lived in the United States for several years in the 1970s, and returned to the U.S. in 1990 after a car accident left him partially disabled.
Achebe's novels focus on the traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of values during and after the colonial era. His style relied heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory. He also published a number of short stories, children's books, and essay collections. He became the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, United States.
Achebe died at age 82 following a brief illness.
瞭解黑人文化,此書值得一讀。
評分This book has a crude originality. It brings out the very complexity of an African society at the onset of western colonization.
評分Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity
評分Grant Hamilton的Major Contemporary Novels的三本閱讀文本之一。1.前麵緩慢的敘述讓我想到遲子建的《額爾古納河右岸》;2.結尾讓我想到瞭三島由紀夫的尷尬;3.Part One 鋪陳1-13章,Part Two住在娘傢14-19章,重迴部落20-25章。為什麼要那麼頭重腳輕的安排情節?
評分Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; things fall apart; the center cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity
对非洲的了解实在是不够的,大部分认识来自于《动物世界》,幸好去之前读到这本《这个世界土崩瓦解了》,对于非洲的风土人情有所管窥了。这是本只有非洲人才能写得出来的生动的著作,讲述了非洲土著人的原生态以及被白人入侵后的冲突和崩溃的过程,正如书名所寓意的那样,“在...
評分2007年6月13日,第二届国际布克文学奖评委会主席、哥伦比亚大学教授Elaine Showalter这样评价他:“In Things Fall Apart and his other fiction set in Nigeria, Chinua Achebe inaugurated the modern African novel. He also illuminated the path for writers around the w...
評分 評分是什么原因使得一个人觉得这个世界土崩瓦解了,再也回不到从前? 那就是一个人精神世界所信仰的那个神被彻底的摧毁! 奥贡喀沃是个勇敢的战士,他信奉着他的宗族的神,他信奉勇敢、勤劳、荣誉、地位带来的心理的满足。当帝国的代表带来了众神之神—“上帝”来到这个非洲的部落...
評分Things Fall Apart pdf epub mobi txt 電子書 下載 2024