Ambiguous Adventure
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品牌: Wole SoyinkaCheikh Hamidou KaneKatherine Woods
基本信息出版社:Melville House (2012年4月10日)平装:176页正文语种:英语ISBN:1612190545条形码:9781612190549商品尺寸:12.6 x 0.9 x 20.2 cm商品重量:181 gASIN:1612190545您想告诉我们您发现了更低的价格?
商品描述内容简介The celebrated classic by a groundbreaking figure in African literature addresses a critical contemporary issue—the collision of Islamic African values and Western culture.
Hailed by Chinua Achebe as one of the greatest African novels ever written, this long-unavailable classic tells the tale of young Samba Diallo, a devout pupil in a Koranic school in Senegal whose parents send him to Paris to study philosophy.
But unknown to Samba, it is a desperate attempt by his parents to better understand the French colonial forces transforming their traditional way of life. Instead, for Samba, it seems an exciting adventure, and once in France he excels at his new studies and is delighted by his new "marvelous comprehension and total communion" with the Western world.
Soon, though, he finds himself torn between the materialistic secularism and isolation of French civilization and the deeper spiritual influences of his homeland. As Samba puts it: "I have become the two."
Written in an elegant, lyrical prose,Ambiguous Adventureis a masterful expression of the immigrant experience and the repercussions of colonialism, and a great work of literature about the uneasy relationship between Islamic Africa and the West—a relationship more important today than ever before.媒体推荐“A fine novel. . . The philosophical dialogue between the West and Africa has rarely been better presented than inAmbiguous Adventure. . .The hero of the novel, the deliverer-to-be and paragon of the new generation, returns from France a total spiritual wreck, his once vibrant sense of community hopelessly shattered. Summoned to assume the mantle of leadership, his tortured soul begs to be excused, to be left alone. ‘What have their problems to do with me?’ he asks. ‘I am only myself. I have only me.’ Poor fellow; the West has got him!”
—Chinua Achebe, author ofThings Fall Apart
“From within his profoundly Muslim personality, Diallo mani- fests the quintessence of African humanity and the destiny of the black race.”
—Wole Soyinka, Nobel Laureate
“My favorite novel. . . a complicated but brilliant novel about interracial relations.”
—Angélique Kidjo, Grammy Award– winning singer-songwriter
“It is a work that summarizes and brings into focus the ideas and attitudes that lie at the center of inspiration of all French African writing.”
—Abiola Irele,Lectures Africanes
“Exceptionally beautiful. . . . highly original. . . oddly moving.Ambiguous Adventureis an indispensable book for anyone wish- ing to delve into the psychology of colonialism.”
—Words Without Borders
“Cheikh Hamidou Kane, avoiding the temporal and political ele- ment of his subject matter, the anguish of being black, lands upon a reflection that concerns us all: the anguish of being human.”
—J. Chevrier,Le Monde
