The Palm-Wine Drinkard

Posted on 04 August 2018 by Amos Tutuola

When Amos Tutuola s first novel, The Palm Wine Drinkard, appeared in 1952, it aroused exceptional worldwide interest Drawing on the West African Nigeria Yoruba oral folktale tradition, Tutuola described the odyssey of a devoted palm wine drinker through a nightmare of fantastic adventure Since then, The Palm Wine Drinkard has been translated into than 15 languages and has come to be regarded as a masterwork of one of Africa s most influential writers. Free Download The Palm-Wine Drinkard Author Amos Tutuola For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr The tallest tall tale ever of what one champion boozer did to get a decent drink.A psychedelic quest as mindbending as Yellow Submarine the film, but written fifteen years earlier and thousands of miles away.A myth told unusually in the first person by a trickster god slash Herculean hero, with a Taoist fresh...Dear Mr Amos Tutuola,When I was a small boy I was told the story of a perfect gentleman who went to a market and returned from it with a girl that followed him As he went back home, he kept giving back the pieces of him that were borrowed, so that by the time he got to his home, he was only a skull And the girl deceived by his beauty now only a slave.Well, Mr Tatuola, thank you very much for taking me through many indescribable adventures and many incomprehensible mysteries I enjoyed them Dear Mr Amos Tutuola,When I was a small boy I was told the story of a perfect gentleman who went to a market and returned from it with a girl that followed him As he went back home, he kept giving back the pieces of him that were borrowed, so that by the time he got to his home, he was only a skull An...Read this book on the basis that it is impossible to resist chapter titles such as AN EGG FED THE WHOLE WORLD and PAY WHAT YOU OWE ME AND VOMIT WHAT YOU ATE, and for passages of tortured syntax such as Then my wife asked him how could a man buy a pig in a bag But the man replied that there was no need of testing the load, he said that once we put it on our head either it was heavier than what we could carry or not, anyhow we should carry it to the town So we stood before that man and his Read this book on the basis that it is impossible to resist chapter titles such as AN EGG FED THE WHOLE WORLD and PAY WHAT YOU OWE ME AND VOMIT WHAT YOU ATE , and for passages of tortured syntax such as Then my wife asked him how could a man buy a pig in a bag But the man replied that there was no need of testing the l...So there s a scene where the evasive Death is being pursued, but he isn t at home, he s in the yam garden I thought, Candide There was hope but alas I don t like novels drenched in Folk Lore and the sinuous path never again crackled my imagination Recommended for friends of The Storyt...140718 this is read 3 times this is the book that made his name it has been translated but i do not know how a lot of the pleasure is in the voice, the unique version of Nigerian english used, perhaps proving that you cannot fail to make poetry when you use english beckett i had read some Tutuola before this, i was not surprised, but all the invented and fantastic adventures are what could be translations of typical oral tales he had learned from his grandmother and others then written 140718 this is read 3 times this is the book that made his name it has been translated but i do not know how a lot of the pleasure is in the voice, the unique version of Nigerian english used, perhaps proving that you cannot fail to make poetry when you use english beckett i had read some Tutuola before this, i was not surprised, but all the invented and fantastic adventures are what could be translations of typical oral tales he had learned from his grandmother and others then written downi have now readlitcrit on Tutuola, and this deepens my fascination, if only in aspects that might just entertain the reader, that give further sense of the bad grammar contention as litcrit sometimes notes t is free of language and common english poetics but not so extreme as joyce and examines his work, his use of common yoruba tales...I read this book many years ago Today, I picked the book off my shelves and re read the first lines It still makes the hair rise on the back of my neck I was a palm wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age I had no other workthan to drink palm wine in my life But when my father noticed that I could not do any workthan to drink, he engaged an expert palm wine tapster for me he had no other workthan to tap palm wine every day So my father gave me a I read this book many years ago Today, I picked the book off my shelves and re read the first lines It still makes the hair rise on the back of my neck I was a palm wine drinkard since I was a boy of ten years of age I had no other workthan to drink palm wine in my life But when my father noticed that I could not do any workthan t...Published in 1952, Amos Tutuola s The Palm Wine Drinkard is the first African novel to be published in English outside of Africa It is subtitled and His Dead Palm Wine Tapster in the Dead s Town Told from the perspective of the Father of gods who could do anything in this world , it describes his journey for the quest of his dead tapster For me, this is the kind of work that would have impressed Coleridge in terms of my reading experience He said, The reader should be carried forward, Published in 1952, Amos Tutuola s The Palm Wine Drinkard is the first African novel to be published in English outside of Africa It is subtitled and His Dead Palm Wine Tapster in the Dead s Town Told from the perspective of the Father of gods who could do anything in this world , it describes his journey for the quest of his dead tapster For me, this is the kind of work that would have impressed Coleridge in terms of my reading experience He said, The reader should be carried forward, not merely or chiefly by the mechanical impulse of curios...In a recent NY Times Book Review article, Nigerian writer Chigozie Obioma told a story about how when he was frequently ill as a child, his father would tell him wild stories Puzzled as to why this stopped, he asked his father for an explanation, who explained that Chigozie was now old enough to read on his own, handing him The Palm Wine Drinkard It turns out his father had no i...I need some Juju to help me review thisIn some times and places, madmen were viewed with a sort of wary deference Were they simply insane, or touched by the hand of God You couldn t be sure That same sort of holy madness chilling and funny by turns infuses every page of this story What part is myth and what part is novel You can t really tell where one ends and the other begins To pick up this book is to find yourself unexpectedly wrenched from the world and deposited into a dangerous wonderland that almost, but not quite, In some times and places, madmen were viewed with a sort of wary deference Were they simply insane, or touched by the hand of God You couldn t b...

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04 August 2018

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