Inbunden, Engelska, 2016
Death and the King's Horseman
Av Wole Soyinka
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"A masterpiece of 20th century drama." - The GuardianElesin Oba, the King's Horseman, has a single destiny. When the King dies, he must commit ritual suicide and lead his King's favourite horse and dog through the passage to the world of the ancestors. A British Colonial Officer, Pilkings, intervenes to prevent the death and arrests Elesin.
Produktinformation
- Utgivningsdatum: 2016-01-28
- Mått: 210 x 10 x 120 mm
- Vikt: 165 g
- Format: Inbunden
- Språk: Engelska
- Serie: Modern Classics
- Antal sidor: 96
- Förlag: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- ISBN: 9781474260763
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Wole Soyinka - playwright, novelist, poet and polemical essayist - was born in Nigeria in 1934. Educated there and at Leeds University, he worked in the British theatre before returning to West Africa in 1960. In 1986 he became the first African writer to win the Nobel Prize for Literature.
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This rich turbulent piece, which starts as folk comedy and ends as Greek tragedy, takes on board an abundance of ideas: identity, tradition, the passage from life to death ... Soyinka's play is as much philosophical as political.
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