Image via Wikipedia I have just finished reading, after some effort to stay with it, Chinua Achebe’s acclaimed 1959 novel Things Fall Apart, reputedly the most widely read African novel. Which is too bad, as it fails to achieve what apparently drove Achebe to write it: the desire to bring to life the ample humanity [...]
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On Humanity and Good Writing: Novels Fall Apart
by Rick Skwiot May 6, 2010 BooksImage via Wikipedia I have just finished reading, after some effort to stay with it, Chinua Achebe’s acclaimed 1959 novel Things Fall Apart, reputedly the most widely read African novel. Which is too bad, as it fails to achieve what apparently drove Achebe to write it: the desire to bring to life the ample humanity [...]