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12023221 No.12023221 [Reply] [Original]

This is unexpectedly a good book.

>> No.12023241

Why shouldn't it be?

>> No.12023245

Achebe in general is very good. I'd recommend Anthills of the Savannah as well for his take on contemporary African military dictatorships.

>> No.12023276

>>12023241
/lit/ and 4chan at large has a disdain for Africans as cultureless people.

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>>12023221
dude magic yams lmao

>> No.12023984

but it's a meme. And the author dissed Conrad

>> No.12023992

>>12023221
Why the fuck would that be "unexpected", you fucking moron!?

>> No.12023994

>>12023984
Two good writers can have disagreements and still be good writers. Consensus isnt the ideal.

>> No.12024004

>>12023992
He's a black

>> No.12024007

>>12023994
I'm not going to read this book if it's just going to be "muh racism" schlock

>> No.12024008

>>12023221
Okonkwo did nothing wrong

>> No.12024034

>>12024007
You are either a moron or a troll. The only way to find out if it is muh racism schlock is to read it and see for yourself which is what an intelligent person would do. Instead, you want to find an excuse not to read it by selectively taking as truth various opinions on an internet image board. You are afraid of reading.

>> No.12024050

based patriarchical and murdering tribes

>> No.12024056

>>12024007
The book is the ultimate redpill on how savage africans truly are

>> No.12024098

>>12023992
>!?

>> No.12024120

>>12023984
>And the author dissed Conrad
>caring about authors shit-tier opinions about other authors
Its like listening to actors talk about other actors. Nabokov is particularly embarrassing. The literary equivalent of Kurt Cobain reccing all those awful grunge bands

>> No.12024282

I just read Things Fall Apart, how does Heart of Darkness compare?

>> No.12024504

>>12024282
Achebe basically misses all of Conrad's triumphs (transmissibility, rethoric) by explaining his "culture" for outsiders (the implicit readers) while trying to give a "balanced account" of the white people that came

so Heart of Darkness is much much better

>> No.12025088

>>12024282
>>12024504
You can't compare them just like you can't compare cake batter to cake. HoD is recognized as the first modern novel; Things Fall Apart was one of the early giants of postmodern literature.

>> No.12025104

>>12025088
Madame Bovary is the first modern novel, silly