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Registre-se no LibraryThing tpara descobrir se gostará deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. Nigerian Nobelist Wole Soyinka (b. 1934) gifts readers with a glimpse of his African childhood from his earliest memories until he’s on the brink of leaving for boarding school. Soyinka writes from his younger self’s perspective, so his interpretation of people, places, and events is a bit distorted by his childhood innocence and inexperience. He was a precocious child whose thirst for knowledge had him following his older sibling to school at just two years old. Thankfully, the adults and older children in his life didn’t squelch his curiosity, and the literary world is all the better for it. Nobelisti Wole Soyinka oli minulle aivan uusi tuttavuus. Soyinkan monipuolinen tuotanto käsittää mm. näytelmiä, mikä mielestäni heijastuu tässäkin omaelämäkerrallisessa -- joskin afrikkalaisittain väritetyssä -- lapsuuskuvauksessa. Kertomus etenee episodimaisesti yhdestä lapsuusmuistosta toiseen ja pitää lukijan otteessaan, vaikkei kirjailija rakennakaan klassisen romaanin laista suurta tarinan kaarta. Kiehtovinta kirjassa on vanhan heimouskonnon ja animismin värittämän mielenmaiseman kuvaus, samoin kuin paikallisten tarinankertojien hulvattomat taidonnäytteet. Onko kenties niin, että länsimaissa tunnetuiksi tulleet nigerialaishuijaukset juontavat juurensa samasta tarinaniskennän perinteestä? A child's life in colonial Nigeria, 5 September 2015 This review is from: Ake: The Years of Childhood (Vintage International) (Paperback) Nobel prize winning author Wole Soyinka recalls his early years in 30s/40s Nigeria. Son of a middle class Christian family (his father is a headmaster), the flavour of Yoruba society is nonetheless vividly evoked throughout, whether it's his pagan grandfather cutting his ankles in a coming of age ritual, his father's ideas on bringing up his family ("to him, shoes on the feet of children was the ultimate gesture in the spoiling of the young"), the food ,the animals and the largely communal lifestyle of the people. Soyinka's early chapters show him as a very small child, just becoming aware of the world outside his home. I was reminded of the similar 'feel' that Laurie Lee conjured up in his recollections of infancy in 'Cider with Rosie' (albeit in a very different setting!) Later we see his early intelligence, and his attaining a scholarship. In the last couple of chapters the fairly tame Women's Group to which his mother belongs starts to take up politics, fighting the iniquitous tax levied on the poor and gradually becoming part of the anti-British rule movement. Extremely well-written with some amusing episodes, bringing his world to life. sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
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A dazzling memoir of an African childhood from Nobel Prize-winning Nigerian novelist, playwright, and poet Wole Soyinka. "Ake The Years of Childhood" gives us the story of Soyinka's boyhood before and during World War II in a Yoruba village in western Nigeria called Ake. A relentlessly curious child who loved books and getting into trouble, Soyinka grew up on a parsonage compound, raised by Christian parents and by a grandfather who introduced him to Yoruba spiritual traditions. His vivid evocation of the colorful sights, sounds, and aromas of the world that shaped him is both lyrically beautiful and laced with humor and the sheer delight of a child's-eye view. A classic of African autobiography, "Ake" is also a transcendantly timeless portrait of the mysteries of childhood. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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On sent bien comment Wole Soyinka reconstruit son enfance pour expliquer l’homme qu’il est devenu, tout en laissant une grande place aux lieux et à l’époque. Sachant qu’il est devenu avant tout un homme de théâtre, je trouve cette mise en scène qui ne se cache pas intéressante et savoureuse à la fois.
Une intéressante et étrange lecture, donc. Je ne suis pas certaine cependant de lire les autres tomes des mémoires de Wole Soyinka, mais je ne serais pas contre voir une de ses pièces et, en attendant le bon vouloir d’un metteur en scène, je me laisserais bien tenter par le roman qu’il a publié il y a peu et dont la traduction vient de paraître en France sous le long et un peu énigmatique titre [Chroniques du pays des gens les plus heureux du monde].