Season of Anomy

by Wole Soyinka

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"In an unnamed country in Africa, Ofeyi writes propaganda jingles for the National Cocoa Corporation. As a part of his job, he is sent to Aiyeru, a small coastal village whose geographic landscape has largely kept the village insulated from the government and its corruption, to promote the company. Here, Ofeyi witnesses a traditional way of life and values that run counter to their country; this creates an inner shift. In a challenge against the government, Ofeyi soon finds that the show more revolution may be too difficult to control"-- show less

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Wole Soyinka tilldelades 1986 nobelpriset i litteratur. Och - jag gillar inte att behöva säga det - det är sådana beslut som ger nobelpristagare ryktet at vara svår- eller obegripliga.
"I laglöshetens tid" handlar om en konfilkt i Afrika. Nigeria? Ja, troligen, eftersom Soyinka är nigerian. Handlar det om en frigörelse från kolonialmakt? Vet inte. Är det ett inbördeskrig? Vet inte. Lider människor? Ja, många. Andra trivs ganska bra. Vilka ingår i "Kartellen" som är så fruktad? Vet inte?

Vad jag vill påvisa är att Soyinka har valt att göra sin text så hemlig och svårtillgänglig att det stora hela blir snårigt och svåröverkådligt. Är det ett grepp för att påvisa konfliktens komplexitet? Nej, jag tro inte det. show more Snarare är det ett sätt att på ett intellektuellt sätt liva upp beskrivningarna, så att det inte bara enkelt redogör för skeenden i kronologisk (logisk) ordning. Detta kan vara snyggt, men om allt blir så-j-a hemligt som hör, ja, då blir man som läsare bara irriterad.

Men förthjännster finns också, särskilt Soyinkas sätt att skriva dialog. Det känns levande och tidvis blir karaktärerna verkligt levande.
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Wole Soyinka was born in Abeokuta, Ogun State of Nigeria on July 13, 1934. He attended Government College and University College in Ibadan before receiving a degree in English from the University of Leeds in England in 1958. He has held research and teaching appointments at several universities including the University of Ibadan, the University of show more Ife, Cornell University, Emory University, the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, and Loyola Marymount. He is a distinguished playwright, poet, novelist, essayist, social critic, political activist, and literary scholar. His plays include The Swamp Dwellers, The Lion and the Jewel, A Dance of the Forests, The Bacchae of Euripides, A Play for Giants, Death and the King's Horsemen, From Zia with Love, The Beatification of Area Boy, and King Baabu. His collections of poetry include Idanre and Other Poems, A Shuttle in the Crypt, and Mandela's Earth and Other Poems. His novels include The Interpreters, which won the 1968 Jock Campbell Literary Award, and Season of Anomy. His autobiographical works include Ake: The Years of Childhood, Isara: A Voyage Around Essay, The Open Sore of a Continent: A Personal Memoir of the Nigerian Crisis, and You Must Set Forth at Dawn. His literary essays collections include Myth, Literature and the African World and Art, Dialogue and Outrage. During the civil war in Nigeria, he appealed for cease-fire in an article. Accused of treason, he was held in solitary confinement for 22 months. Two of his works, The Man Died: Prison Notes of Wole Soyinka and Poems from Prison, were secretly written on toilet paper and smuggled out of prison. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986. (Bowker Author Biography) show less

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Canonical title*
Dagen der duisternis
Original title
Season of Anomy
Original publication date
1973 (Engels) (Engels); 1987 (Nederlands) (Nederlands)
Important places*
Nigeria
First words*
Det var en egendomlig anomali, området hade länge styrt och kontrollerat sig självt och var så fast i sin uppbyggnad, att man hade tagit upp skatt av hela befolkningen och betalat den kontant till den i tropikhjälm kläd... (show all)de uppbördsmannen, som strax kunde ge sig iväg.
Last words*
(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)I skogarna började livet vakna.
Original language*
Engels
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Fiction and Literature, General Fiction
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823Literature & rhetoricEnglish & Old English literaturesEnglish fiction
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PR9387.9 .S6Language and LiteratureEnglishEnglish LiteratureEnglish literature: Provincial, local, etc.
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