The author reviews a modern classic – Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe – that is a scathing critique of the European colonization of the life and culture of one of the indigenous communities of Africa, successfully overwriting the idea of Native Africans being “the white man’s burden”. Things Fall Apart, the first novel by…
Jon Fosse, the winner of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Literature, focuses on the ordinary man in his writing. The author dives into his works below. Jon Fosse is a Norwegian playwright, novelist, short story writer, poet, and essayist. He was born in 1959 and grew up in Strandebarm, a small village in Norway’s western…
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2023, the author delves into Jon Fosse’s ‘Scenes from a Childhood’ in this review. In his 2022 interview with the Los Angeles Review of Books, Jon Fosse elaborated on what it means to have a backhand in the praxis of literary pursuit. He confessed to a mystic quality,…