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The palm-wine drinkard and my life in the bush of ghosts Amos Tutuola
Publisher: Grove press

Maxime Dambrin Today my favorite books are Mort � crédit and Casse-pipe by Céline, Journal d'un innocent by T.Duvert, Illuminations by Rimbaud, Fictions by Borges and Le Château by Kafka. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts by Amos Tutuola My rating: 4 of 5 on his forehead. The Palm-Wine Drinkard was followed up by My Life in the Bush of Ghosts in 1954 and then several other books in which Tutuola continued to explore Yoruba traditions and folklore. I think “Palm Wine Drinkard” and “My Life in the Bush of Ghosts” kick ass, but that dude's work has also been subjected to some of the most shameful exoticizing and outright condescension I've seen in the academy. For lacking your analytical tools. In my opinion, The Palm-Wine Drinkard is somewhat a difficult novel to review considering the fact that it is unlike anything I have ever read before. Based on traditional Yoruban folktales, the narrative ironically depicts . I don't particularity like this surrealist genre. Some of these pranks, one's mind went to those fantasy fairy tales of the likes of D.O Fagunwa/ Wole Soyinka in The Forest of a Thousand Deamons or Amos Tutuola's Palmwine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. I have My Life in the Bush of Ghosts,by the same author though I've never read it. The Palm-Wine Drinkard and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts | Books. But who knows, I might read it one day. In The Palm-Wine Drinkard (first published by Faber and Faber in 1952), Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola explores the sobering effects invading colonial powers have on indigenous populations, imposing 'civilization' through violence. You should definitely check out 'The Palm-Wine Drinkard'. "The Palm-wine Drunkard" was also a fun story, but in ways entirely different than "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts. The copy pictured above is actually two novels (the other being 'My Life in the Bush of Ghosts'), and I like them both a lot. Magic is performed and supernatural beings and ghosts naturally interact with human beings. The palm-wine drinkard and my life in the bush of ghosts Amos Tutuola 1993 Grove press ISBN13:9780802133632;ISBN10:0802133630.