I'm sorry but I can't agree. I did not like the book at all. I've done some research and it's funny how Achebe advocates for African literature to have a social purpose to regain dignity and blah blah blah. It is a contradiction because Achebe chose to write the book in English, the language of the "opressor". It should have been written in Igbo, and if the book is "so good" as some claim, they would have translated it into English. It is easy to criticize Conrad for his "racism" in Heart of Darkness, when those were other times, and when Conrad is a masterful writer. Achebe is not. Not even closer!
I do not recommend this book to anybody. The only good thing of the book is the very beginning, when Achebe uses the poetry of Yeats to begin his book: "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." From his poem The Second Coming.
I do not recommend this book to anybody. The only good thing of the book is the very beginning, when Achebe uses the poetry of Yeats to begin his book: "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." From his poem The Second Coming.
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I liked it.
If you like anthropology, or if you like to know about other culture (natives), I think it is a good candidate for that.
7:31 AM
I'm sorry but I can't agree. I did not like the book at all. I've done some research and it's funny how Achebe advocates for African literature to have a social purpose to regain dignity and blah blah blah. It is a contradiction because Achebe chose to write the book in English, the language of the "opressor". It should have been written in Igbo, and if the book is "so good" as some claim, they would have translated it into English.
It is easy to criticize Conrad for his "racism" in Heart of Darkness, when those were other times, and when Conrad is a masterful writer. Achebe is not. Not even closer!
8:11 AM
I do not recommend this book to anybody. The only good thing of the book is the very beginning, when Achebe uses the poetry of Yeats to begin his book: "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." From his poem The Second Coming.
8:12 AM
I do not recommend this book to anybody. The only good thing of the book is the very beginning, when Achebe uses the poetry of Yeats to begin his book: "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." From his poem The Second Coming.
8:12 AM
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