Книга: Ekwensi Cyprian «Glittering City»

Glittering City

Серия: "Penguin modern"

Untrustworthy, charming Fussy Joe spins stories and breaks hearts in this rollicking story set in the'sensational city'of 1960s Lagos. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering spirit of the iconic Penguin Modern Classics series, with each one offering a concentrated hit of its contemporary, international flavour. Here are authors ranging from Kathy Acker to James Baldwin, Truman Capote to Stanislaw Lem and George Orwell to Shirley Jackson; essays radical and inspiring; poems moving and disturbing; stories surreal and fabulous; taking us from the deep South to modern Japan, New York's underground scene to the farthest reaches of outer space.

Издательство: "Penguin Group" (2018)

ISBN: 978-0-241-33984-8,0-241-33984-7

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Ekwensi, Cyprian

▪ Nigerian author
in full  Cyprian Odiatu Duaka Ekwensi  
born Sept. 26, 1921, Minna, Nigeria
died Nov. 4, 2007, Enugu

      Igbo novelist, short-story writer, and children's author whose strength lies in his realistic depiction of the forces that have shaped the African city dweller.

      Ekwensi was educated at Ibadan (Nigeria) University College and at the Chelsea School of Pharmacy in London. His early works include the novellas When Love Whispers (1947) and The Leopard's Claw (1950), which combine a fascination for urban life with earnest exhortations to avoid its pitfalls. People of the City (1954; rev. ed., 1969) is a commentary in a journalistic style on the problems of corruption, bribery, and despotism as seen through the eyes of a crime reporter and dance-band leader in Lagos.

      Jagua Nana (1961), Ekwensi's most successful novel, has as its protagonist Jagua, a charming, colourful, and impressive prostitute. Around her, Ekwensi sets in motion a whole panoply of vibrant, amoral characters who have rejected their rural origins and adopted the opportunistic, pleasure-seeking urban lifestyle. Similar characters and themes emerge from the well-written Lokotown and Other Stories (1966), where the glitter and excitement of Lagos life is sharply contrasted with its seediness and degradation. Burning Grass (1962) concerns Fulani cattlemen in the north of Nigeria. A sequel to Jagua Nana, entitled Jagua Nana's Daughter, was published in 1986, and For a Roll of Parchment, his 33rd novel, appeared in 1987.

      He also wrote a number of children's books and a collection of Igbo folktales. Although some of his writings suffer from shallow characterization, his work remains an outstanding chronicle of Nigerian city life and appealed to a broad audience.

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Источник: Ekwensi, Cyprian

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