The African Trilogy

产品信息

Author: Julie Dachez 

Format: Paperback | 576 pages

Publisher: Penguin USA

Language: English

ISBN10 0143131346

ISBN13 9780143131342

Product Dimensions: 140 x 211 x 41mm | 612g

页面参数仅供参考，具体以实物为准

书籍介绍

奇努阿·阿奇比被誉为现代非洲文学之父，开启了非洲小说的神奇之窗。三部曲——包括《瓦解》、《动荡》和《神箭》——是他的代表作。在这些精妙的小说中，阿奇比出色地想象了从英国人第一次来到非洲到大英帝国逐渐衰落的殖民主义力量颠覆了非洲社区三代人的生活。三部曲以具有开创性的《瓦解》(Things Fall Apart)开篇，讲述了奥孔科沃的故事。奥孔科沃是村里的一位英雄，他与传教士的冲突，加上他自己悲剧性的骄傲，导致他失宠。

Chinua Achebe is considered the father of modern African literature, the writer who opened the magic casements of African fiction. The African Trilogy--comprised of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease--is his magnum opus. In these masterly novels, Achebe brilliantly imagines the lives of three generations of an African community as their world is upended by the forces of colonialism from the first arrival of the British to the waning days of empire. The trilogy opens with the groundbreaking Things Fall Apart, the tale of Okonkwo, a hero in his village, whose clashes with missionaries--coupled with his own tragic pride--lead to his fall from grace. 

《神箭》讲述了持续与变化之间的冲突，刚愎自用的首席祭司Ezeulu发现他的权威受到了对手和殖民官员的威胁。但他相信自己是不可动摇的，决心领导他的人民，即使这是走向他们自己的毁灭。最后，在英国接受教育的奥孔科沃的孙子不再安心，回到拉各斯从事公务员工作，却只看到他的道德被侵蚀，因为他仍然是统治精英中的一员。

Arrow of God takes up the ongoing conflict between continuity and change as Ezeulu, the headstrong chief priest, finds his authority is under threat from rivals and colonial functionaries. But he believes himself to be untouchable and is determined to lead his people, even if it is towards their own destruction. Finally, in No Longer at Ease, Okonkwo's grandson, educated in England, returns to a civil-service job in Lagos, only to see his morality erode as he clings to his membership in the ruling elite. 

本书取材于阿奇比年轻时的传统伊博故事，是文学的里程碑，是关于现代非洲的一个神话和普遍的故事。正如托妮·莫里森(Toni Morrison)所写，没有奇努阿·阿契贝(Chinua Achebe)的作品，非洲文学是不完整的，是不可想象的。就激情、智慧和晶莹剔透的散文而言，他是无与伦比的。

Drawing on the traditional Igbo tales of Achebe's youth, The African Trilogy is a literary landmark, a mythic and universal tale of modern Africa. As Toni Morrison wrote, African literature is incomplete and unthinkable without the works of Chinua Achebe. For passion, intellect and crystalline prose, he is unsurpassed.

作者简介

奇努阿·阿奇贝(1930-2013)出生于尼日利亚。他被广泛认为是现代非洲文学之父，他的非洲三部曲，包括《瓦解》、《动荡》和《神箭》。三部曲讲述了一个尼日利亚社区三代人从第一次殖民接触到城市yi民以及传统文化的崩溃。他还著有《大草原的蚁丘》《一个人民的男人》《战争中的女孩和其他故事》《家园与流放》《希望与障碍》《诗集》《一个受英国保护的孩子的教育》《奇克与河流》和《有一个国家》。他是大卫和玛丽安娜·费舍尔大学教授和布朗大学非洲研究教授，十五年多来，他是巴德学院语言和文学小查尔斯·P·史蒂文森教授。他是大卫和玛丽安娜·费舍尔大学教授和布朗大学非洲研究教授，十五年多来，他是巴德学院语言和文学小查尔斯·p·史蒂文森教授。阿奇比获得了尼日利亚国家荣誉奖，这是尼日利亚对智力成就的*高奖项。2007年，阿奇比被授予布克国际终身成就奖。

Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) was born in Nigeria. Widely considered to be the father of modern African literature, he is best known for his masterful African Trilogy, consisting of Things Fall Apart, Arrow of God, and No Longer at Ease. The trilogy tells the story of a single Nigerian community over three generations from first colonial contact to urban migration and the breakdown of traditional cultures. He is also the author of Anthills of the Savannah, A Man of the People, Girls at War and Other Stories, Home and Exile, Hopes and Impediments, Collected Poems, The Education of a British-Protected Child, Chike and the River, and There Was a Country. He was the David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University and, for more than fifteen years, was the Charles P. Stevenson Jr. Professor of Languages and Literature at Bard College. Achebe was the recipient of the Nigerian National Merit Award, Nigeria's highest award for intellectual achievement. In 2007, Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for lifetime achievement.