出版社: Anchor Canada
副标题: A Novel
出版年: 2009-4-21
页数: 224
定价: CAD 17.95
装帧: Paperback
ISBN: 9780385667838
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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 ...
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.
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钦努阿·阿契贝 作者
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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 fascinate...
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.
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1 有用 红河谷的莲儿 2018-01-24 08:30:21
为什么我感觉这本书实际上美化了白人在非洲的殖民行径?仿佛基督教解决了当地人的精神困惑,解救了被本土宗教迫害的人群?
1 有用 海之子 2017-02-06 12:54:08
This book has a crude originality. It brings out the very complexity of an African society at the onset of western colonization.
1 有用 yokohama 2016-10-19 19:28:23
Grant Hamilton的Major Contemporary Novels的三本阅读文本之一。1.前面缓慢的叙述让我想到迟子建的《额尔古纳河右岸》;2.结尾让我想到了三岛由纪夫的尴尬;3.Part One 铺陈1-13章,Part Two住在娘家14-19章,重回部落20-25章。为什么要那么头重脚轻的安排情节?
0 有用 Fay 2011-04-20 15:48:58
了解黑人文化,此书值得一读。
1 有用 希罗达 2017-04-20 01:14:59
英文真的是太漂亮了……前三分之二和后三分之一形成对比,第三部份开始就紧紧地被抓住,最后只剩下深深的叹息,与同情相比,更多的是无奈吧。
0 有用 谁也不能发现我 2024-04-20 07:34:00 加拿大
用谚语、寓言和祭祀仪式堆砌起部落被殖民前的样貌。对非洲文化的解释过于浅显易懂,以至于像是写给西方世界的一本旅游指南。比起部落中原本存在的谋杀,白人传教士的入侵显得如此温和。残忍殖民史被化解为传统父权的崩塌,是合理的吗?
0 有用 未晚 2024-04-13 14:48:21 湖北
“Okonkwo was deeply grieved. And it was not just a personal grief. He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unacco... “Okonkwo was deeply grieved. And it was not just a personal grief. He mourned for the clan, which he saw breaking up and falling apart, and he mourned for the warlike men of Umuofia, who had so unaccountably become soft like women.” (展开)
0 有用 差不多小姐 2024-03-01 19:30:28 广东
怎么评,一开始就知道应该是悲剧,但看到结局还是让人唏嘘,认知生活的局限总是能造就悲剧,甚至都不知怪谁,结局的一句话让人破防。 One could almost write a whole chapter on him. Perhaps not a whole chapter but a reasonable paragraph, at any rate.
0 有用 quantum 2024-01-29 23:49:56 中国香港
真的很引人入胜,平实很富有技巧的英文写作。
0 有用 森下村树 2023-12-15 23:55:56 英国
For academic uses, read it without any interest 😇