Blue White Red

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This tale of wild adventure reveals the dashed hopes of Africans living between worlds When Moki returns to his village from France wearing designer clothes and affecting all the manners of a Frenchman, Massala Massala, who lives the life of a humble peanut farmer after giving up his studies, begins to dream of following in Moki s footsteps Together, the two take wing for Paris, where Massala Massala finds himself a part of an underworld of out of work undocumented immigrants After a botched attempt to sell metro passes purchased with a stolen checkbook, he winds up in jail and is deported Blue White Red is a novel of postcolonial Africa where young people born into poverty dream of making it big in the cities of their former colonial masters Alain Mabanckou s searing commentary on the lives of Africans in France is cut with the parody of African villagers who boast of a son in the country of Digol. New Download Blue White Red by Alain Mabanckou For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr Brilliant early work of Alain Mabanckou only now translated into English Written 1993 1995, it is a story of living the dream to become aParisian and return to the home country in this case Congo Brazzaville as a dandy I ll manage to get myself out of this Thrown into some dark hole or cell of some kind, not knowing by whom, where and why, the first person narrator can no longer distinguish between dream and reality Nightmarish wild thoughts tumble over each other in the captive Brilliant early work of Alain Mabanckou only now translated into English Written 1993 199...Alain Mabanckou s debut novel is narrated by Massala Massala, a young Congolese man who is a neighbor of Moki, a slightly older man who is revered by the villagers where his parents and brothers live in luxury Moki is a Parisian, one of the few Congolese who has emigrated to Paris and found success there He is welcomed like royalty when he makes his annual return to his home during the dry season, as he represents the hopes and dreams of his people He dresses in the latest Parisian fashions, Alain Mabanckou s debut novel is narrated by Massala Massala, a young Congolese man who is a neighbor of Moki, a slightly older man who is revered by the villagers where his parents and brothers live in luxury Moki is a Parisian, one of the few Congolese who has emigrated to Paris and found success there He is welcomed like royalty when he makes his annual return to his home during the dry season, as he represents the hopes and dreams of his people He dresses in the latest Parisian fashions, hands out gifts to extended family members and friends, speaks proper French French instead of speaking in French, quotes de Maupassant, Saint Exup ry and Baudelaire freely, causes local girls to swoon openly in his presence, and holds court at his father s home and in local bars, as he talks about...An interesting insight into a world I know nothing about, being young, white and Scottish Frustrating to get into if you don t like books which open with the ending and then go back to explain the story.Nice ride in a completely different culture and voice.Short in story He could have streched iT a bitI still haven Reading questions 1 What happend when he returned to Congo 2 What happend when he returned to paris Nevertheless I ve read the whole book with only a 10 minute break.This was by far the easiest to understand of the books read in my Postcolonial Francophone Lit course, and it gets even easier to understand as you go on Highly recommend for anyone interested in postcolonial lit or francophone lit in general.I m not really going to review the novel, but I do want to sum up it s subject with a quote The religion of the dream is anchored in the conscience of the country s youth To shatter those beliefs is to expose oneself to the fate reserved for heretics I forgot to write down the page number, my bad For a different view of the draw of Europe to poor African youth, I recommend Abdelleh Ta a s _Salvation Army_ I did like this book, though, for the insights it gave me into the longing of you I m not really going to review the novel, but I do want to sum up it s subject with a quote The religion of the dream is anchored in the conscience of the country s youth To shatter those beliefs is to expose oneself to the fate reserved for heretics I forgot to write down the page number, my bad For a different view of the draw o...cln

Blue White Red
  • English
  • 12 December 2018
  • Paperback
  • 168 pages
  • 0253007917
  • Alain Mabanckou
  • Blue White Red