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
内容简介 · · · · · ·
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
作者简介 · · · · · ·
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 dreamweiwei 2011-06-18 02:57:50
另一个旁听的seminar式课程(字译English literature outside Major English speaking countries
3 有用 MrMs.PL 2015-03-29 09:03:20
超级戳啊!第一次看必读书看得感动得不行。会有种过去现在未来其实一直平行前进着的感觉。
0 有用 bayer04 2017-05-23 13:03:55
这书带着历史背景看真的是蛮重要的,但是实在太,无,聊,了!不过之前看了Silence,总会不自觉联系起来。 "If you want to see it well, you must not stand in one place."
17 有用 CheshireCat 2015-08-21 23:38:12
前两章类似人类学的叙述,展现了尼日利亚部落文化和信仰,之后missionary和district commission的进入,不能简单地解读为文化或者信仰的冲突,也不能仅仅说是tradition和西方文明或者现代的冲突。Okonkwo像极了Aristotle的tragic hero,他的死和结尾也是值得仔细再分析解读。集会时,Okonkwo选择刺杀messager是一时兴起,还是深思后的结果。他的... 前两章类似人类学的叙述,展现了尼日利亚部落文化和信仰,之后missionary和district commission的进入,不能简单地解读为文化或者信仰的冲突,也不能仅仅说是tradition和西方文明或者现代的冲突。Okonkwo像极了Aristotle的tragic hero,他的死和结尾也是值得仔细再分析解读。集会时,Okonkwo选择刺杀messager是一时兴起,还是深思后的结果。他的自杀是处于对于未来的绝望还是出于保护部族。things fall apart,瓦解的是什么,这种瓦解本身是否有好坏,还是其本身就是一个不可避免地历史进程,即使说没有missionary和殖民势力的进入。如何坚持对于tradition的保持也是值得思考。 (展开)
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.
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 😇
0 有用 朴東宣 2023-12-13 08:26:32 英国
很好的文学作品,但是感觉前半部分过长了