Новинки Воле Шойинки

To Doctor Menka's horror, some cunning entrepreneur has decided to sell body parts from his hospital for use in ritualistic practices. Already at the end of his tether from the horrors he routinely sees in surgery, he shares this latest development with his oldest college friend, bon viveur, star engineer and Yoruba royal, Duyole Pitan-Payne, who has never before met a puzzle he couldn't solve. Neither realise how close the enemy is, nor how powerful.
Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth is at once a savagely witty whodunit, a scathing indictment of Nigeria's political elite, and a provocative call to arms from one of the country's most relentless political activists and an international literary giant.

A member of the unique generation of African writers and intellectuals who came of age in the last days of colonialism, Wole Soyinka has witnessed the promise of independence and lived through postcolonial failure. He deeply comprehends the pressing problems of Africa, and, an irrepressible essayist and a staunch critic of the oppressive boot, he unhesitatingly speaks out. In this magnificent new work, Soyinka offers a wide-ranging inquiry into Africa's culture, religion, history, imagination, and identity. He seeks to understand how the continent's history is entwined with the histories of others, while exploring Africa's truest assets: "its humanity, the quality and valuation of its own existence, and modes of managing its environment – both physical and intangible (which includes the spiritual)". Fully grasping the extent of Africa's most challenging issues, Soyinka nevertheless refuses defeatism. With eloquence he analyzes problems ranging from the meaning of the past to the threat of theocracy. He asks hard questions about racial attitudes, inter-ethnic and religious violence, the viability of nations whose boundaries were laid out by outsiders, African identity on the continent and among displaced Africans, and more. Soyinka's exploration of Africa relocates the continent in the reader's imagination and maps a course toward an African future of peace and affirmation.

Wole Soyinka, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature and one of the foremost living African writers, here analyses the interconnecting worlds of myth, ritual and literature in Africa. The ways in which the African world perceives itself as a

The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature, as well as a political activist of prodigious energies, Wole Soyinka now follows his modern classic Aké: The Years of Childhood with an equally important chronicle of his turbulent life as

In this new book developed from the prestigious Reith Lectures, Nobel Prize—winning author Wole Soyinka, a courageous advocate for human rights around the world, considers fear as the dominant theme in world politics. Decades

A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.

Wole Soyinka has translated―in both language and spirit―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 playwrights―Euripides and Soyinka―makes for an unforgettable experience.

"Backgrounds and Sources" helps readers understand Death and the King's Horseman's traditional African contexts and the role of theater in African culture. Included are a map of Yoruba-land, discussions of Yoruban religious beliefs and cultural traditions, Soyinka on the various forms that theater has taken in African culture in order to survive, and Anthony Appiah on Soyinka's struggle with the problem of African identity in the creation of Death and the King's Horseman. Commentary on the play as both a theatrical production and a classroom text is provided by Gerald Moore, Tanure Ojaide, and Martin Rohmer. "Criticism" collects nine major essays on the play and the difficulties it presents to readers. Contributors include D. S. Izevbaye, Eldred Durosimi Jones, Henry Louis Gates Jr., Biodun Jeyifo, Wole Soyinka, Joan Hepburn, Adebayo Williams, David Richards, and Olakunle George. A Chronology and Selected Bibliography are also included.

Book Description A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author. Wole Soyinka has translated in both language and spirit a great classic of ancient Greek theater. He does so with a poet's ear

Playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist, Nigerian-born Wole Soyinka's career as a political activist is inseparable from the writing which has earned him worldwide acclaim and the Nobel Prize for Literature. This is a collection of his poems.

The third volume of the Wole Soyinka's classic works of autobiography.

An uneasy evening in the Kray twins' pub in London's East End with world-famous theatre director Joan Littlewood; a lightning bolt that strikes the light switch beside his desk at school; a confrontation in Cairo Airport's quarantine compound which nearly ends in his being beaten to death - many such bizarre encounters form a regular pattern for Maren, Wole Soyinka's alter ego in this account of his boyhood and young manhood.

Ibadan occupies a special place in the story. This is where the schoolboy finally breaks free from the liberal Christianity of his parental home, and where he later begins his running battle with corrupt authroity, contesting the infamy of power, first with his dramatic satires and then through direct action, eventually holding up a radio station at gunpoint.

The second volume of Wole Soyinka's classic works of autobiography.

In 1984, two years after writing his classic childhood autobiography Aké: The Years of Childhood, Wole Soyinka opened a tin box that had belonged to his father, a schoolteacher during Nigeria's Colonial period.

The simple contents of this box - 'a handful of letters, old journals with marked pages and annotations, notebook jottings, tax and other levy receipts, minutes of meetings and school reports, programme notes of special events' - provide the fuel for this second instalment of Soyinka's memoirs: a son's fictionalised 'voyage' into the life and times of his father.

Гротескная африканская сказка, основанная на рассказах Даниэля Фагунвы. Записал Нобелевский лауреат по литературе Воле Шойинка.

Русский перевод в книге "Заколдованные леса":
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Эта книга - настоящий подарок для любого читателя - от незатейливого любителя сказок до самого искушенного компаративиста.
Поток приключений, тонких замечаний, глубоких мыслей - и приемы гротеска. Переплетение мифов и современностисоздает неповторимый фантастический и вместе с тем комический эффект. Наслаждению от чтения немало способствует великолепный перевод А. Кистяковского.
В книгу вошли произведения африканских писателей А. Тутуолы, Д. Фагунва и В. Шойинка: "Путешествие в Город Мертвых", "Моя жизнь в Лесу Духов", "Лес Тысячи Духов", "Симби и Сатир Темных джунглей", "Перистая женщина".

В сборник крупнейшего писателя Тропической Африки вошел роман "Интерпретаторы" и повесть "Аке, годы детства". Наибольшую известность Воле Шойинке принесли, пожалуй, его драматические произведения, которые представляют собой сплав талантливо переосмысленной европейской традиции и африканского фольклора. Также в том включена одна из лучших пьес автора "Смерть и конюший короля".

В сборник крупнейшего писателя Тропической Африки вошел роман "Интерпретаторы" и повесть "Аке, годы детства". Наибольшую известность Воле Шойинке принесли, пожалуй, его драматические произведения, которые представляют собой сплав талантливо переосмысленной европейской традиции и африканского фольклора. Также в том включена одна из лучших пьес автора "Смерть и конюший короля".

В книге помещены три повести волшебно-фантастического характера. Автор двух повестей - один из родоначальников нигерийской литературы Амос Тутуола, третья принадлежит классику литературы на языке йоруба Фагунве и приводится в обработке известного писателя Воле Шойинки.
Богатая фольклорная традиция, перенесенная в рамки письменной литературы, придает повестям неповторимое своеобразие. При этом произведения такого рода несут в себе примеры реальной современной жизни и составляют органичную и полноправную часть литературного процесса не только в Нигерии, но и в других странах Африки.

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