Alain Mabanckou
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Alain Mabanckou was born in Congo-Brazzavile in 1966. He is the author of Broken Glass (Soft Skull 2010), Memoirs of a Porcupine (Soft Skull 2006) and African Psycho (Soft Skull 2007) among others. He currently divides his time between Paris and California, where he teaches French Literature at visa mer UCLA. Sara Meli Ansari is a translator and design historian. She holds an undergraduate degree in French studies from the University of Michigan and a Masters degree in the history of culture and design from the Bard Graduate Center. She live with her husband in New York City. visa färre
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Verk av Alain Mabanckou
Tant Que Les Arbres S'Enracineront Dans La Terre. Et Autres Po'mes (French Edition) (2003) 4 exemplar
Irmã-estrela 2 exemplar
La felicità degli uomini semplici 2 exemplar
Huit - Nouvelles (Littérature Française) 1 exemplar
Kuppinurin 1 exemplar
Associerade verk
Speaking of Work: A Story of Love, Suspense and Paperclips — Bidragsgivare — 1 exemplar
Taggad
Allmänna fakta
- Födelsedag
- 1966-02-24
- Kön
- male
- Nationalitet
- Congo
- Födelseort
- Congo
- Bostadsorter
- Santa Monica, California, USA
Pointe-Noire, Brazzaville, Congo - Utbildning
- Lycée Karl Marx (BA)
Université Paris-Dauphine (law)
Université Marien-Ngouabi Brazzaville (law) - Yrken
- Professor (University of California, Los Angeles)
Medlemmar
Recensioner
Memoirs of a porcupine av Alain Mabanckou
There's a lot of literary references to things I haven't read, so I just read it as a kind of folk tale. It works well on that level too, and I liked the way that the normal human view of how animals exist and work for them was depicted from the other side for a change.
Sad, funny, sweet. About a boy in an orphanage who then escapes, only to end up there again. Circular in a similar way Blue White Red was. One loses oneself only to end up were one began.
About the “African dandy” in Paris. “Under these circumstances, one will understand that silence, observation, and sometimes contempt lived inside me. I thought that things would go in my favor, suturing the gaping wounds here and there of my disillusionment. I saw the distance sinking between my dirty past and the illusory cocoon of a future. “ (6)
We were allowed to dream. It didn’t cost anything. No exit visa was necessary, no passport, no airline ticket. Think about it. Close your eyes. Sleep. Snore. And there we were, every night...” (20)
Very good. Short, tight tale of a young man chewed up and spit back out by the dream of being an African dandy in Paris.… (mer)
We were allowed to dream. It didn’t cost anything. No exit visa was necessary, no passport, no airline ticket. Think about it. Close your eyes. Sleep. Snore. And there we were, every night...” (20)
Very good. Short, tight tale of a young man chewed up and spit back out by the dream of being an African dandy in Paris.… (mer)
A poetic translation of a young man missteps in Paris, THE big city from a village in the Congo. The longest time is spent on the building of the myth of Paris and "The Parisians", those stylish young men who have by their own stories, conquered Paris and can bring home the goods to their family. The backward view has informed us of the dangerous lie into which the narrator inevitably draws us.
Listor
Tour of Africa (1)
BLM (1)
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Statistik
- Verk
- 47
- Även av
- 5
- Medlemmar
- 1,326
- Popularitet
- #19,390
- Betyg
- 3.4
- Recensioner
- 63
- ISBN
- 175
- Språk
- 15
- Favoritmärkt
- 2
