Things Fall Apart (and The Metamorphosis)
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Things Fall Apart (and The Metamorphosis)
This is my first post on the message board forum. A brief introduction: I'm an English lit teacher teaching overseas in Taiwan. Since Taiwan's national language is Mandarin and Taiwanese (similar to the Hokkien Dialect), this makes it difficult to find people who can engage in literary discussions on English books. I tried searching for a book club in my city, but came up with nothing So out of desperation I turned to the internet and stumbled upon this site.
I just finished The Metamorphosis by Kafka, and am currently reading Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe. I'm having a lot of feelings about the both of them at the moment, so I was hoping that I can engage in some lively literary discussion here. Has anyone else read or is currently reading either of these stories?
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Did you notice how Things Fall Apart was sort of an answer to Conrad's ignorance in Heart of Darkness?
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This. He paved the way for other African writers.Adaumeh wrote: ↑26 Apr 2018, 04:45 I have read Things Fall Apart. More than once actually. Since I'm Igbo, though the setting is rural and my only experience with that is brief visits to my grandparents while growing up, I can certainly relate to both the setting and the characters in the book. Aside from admiring Achebe's style, I am in awe of how he was able to bring to life the flavour of the igbo culture in a foreign language - English.
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