Describes a group of young Nigerian intellectuals trying to do something worthwhile with their lives in a society ruled by corruption, cynicism, social climbing and conformity.

The Interpreters

Wole Soyinka

Literature & Fiction

Fontana

Contemporary

Flamingo

The man died: prison notes of Wole Soyinka

The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Harper&Row

What is V.S. Naipaul were a happy man?... What if Vladimir Nabokov had grown up in a small town in Western Nigeria and decided that politics were not unworthy of him?... Aké locates the lost child in all of us, underneath language, inside sound and smell, wide-eyed, brave and flummoxed. What Waugh made fun of and Proust felt bad about, Mr Soyinka celebrates.

Ake (Arena Books)

World Literature

Arena Assoc

Wole Soyinka, the distinguished African writer, was arrested at the beginning of the Nigerian Civil War in 1967. The Nigerian Government never formally charged him, nor did they bring him to trial. Instead, they imprisoned him for twenty-seven months, the major part of it in solitary confinement in a 4 x 8 foot cell. THE MAN DIED is the book Wole Soyinka wrote about those months.

The Man Died

Arrow Books, Ltd.

SOYINKA OMNIBUS

Biographies & Memoirs

Vintage

'"The Lion and the Jewel" alone is enough to establish Nigeria as the most fertile new source of English-speaking drama since Synge's discovery of the Western Isles.' - "The Times". The ironic development and consequences of 'progress' may be traced through both the themes and the tone of the works included in this second volume of Wole Soyinka's plays. "The Lion and the Jewel" shows an ineffectual assault on past tradition soundly defeated. In "Kongi's Harvest", however, the pretensions of Kongi's regime are also fatal. The denouement points the way forward. "The Two Brother Jero" plays pursue that way, the comic 'propheteering' of the earlier play giving way to the sardonic reality of "Jero's Metamorphosis". "Madmen and Specialists", Soyinka's most pessimistic play, concerns the physical, mental, and moral destruction of modern civil war.

Collected Plays 2

Dramas & Plays

Oxford University Press

The Nobel Laureate's first novel spotlights a small circle of young Nigerian intellectuals living in Lagos.

Interpreters

TRAFALGAR SQUARE +

A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.Wole Soyinka has translatedâ€”in both language and spiritâ€”a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear for the cadences and rhythms of chorus and solo verse as well as a commanding dramatic use of the central social and religious myth. In his hands The Bacchae becomes a communal feast, a tumultuous celebration of life, and a robust ritual of the human and social psyche. "The Bacchae is the rites of an extravagant banquet, a monstrous feast," Soyinka writes. "Man reaffirms his indebtedness to earth, dedicates himself to the demands of continuity, and invokes the energies of productivity. Reabsorbed within the communal psyche he provokes the resources of nature; in turn he is replenished for the cyclic rain in his fragile individual potency." The blending of two master playwrightsâ€”Euripides and Soyinkaâ€”makes for an unforgettable experience.

Bacchae of Euripides a Communion Rite

Business & Money

W.W.Norton&Company

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