Frasi di Chinua Achebe

Albert Chinualumogu Achebe, soprannominato Chinua , è stato uno scrittore, saggista, critico letterario e poeta nigeriano.

Viene considerato il padre della letteratura africana moderna in lingua inglese. Il suo capolavoro, Il crollo è una pietra miliare del genere; viene studiato nelle scuole di numerosi paesi africani ed è stato tradotto in oltre 50 lingue. Gran parte dell'opera di Achebe è incentrata sulla denuncia della catastrofe culturale portata in Nigeria prima dal colonialismo e poi dai regimi corrotti succedutisi dopo l'indipendenza. Wikipedia  

✵ 16. Novembre 1930 – 21. Marzo 2013
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Chinua Achebe Frasi e Citazioni

Chinua Achebe: Frasi in inglese

“There is no story that is not true, […] The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.”

Chinua Achebe libro Things Fall Apart

Variante: The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others.
Origine: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 15 (p. 130)
Contesto: "We have heard stories about white men who make the powerful guns and the strong drinks and took slaves away across the seas, but no one thought the stories were true." [said Obierika]
"There is no story that is not true," said Uchendu. "The world has no end, and what is good among one people is an abomination with others. We have albinos among us. Do you not think that they came to our clan by mistake, that they have strayed from their way to a land where everybody is like them?"

“If you don't like my story, write your own”

Chinua Achebe libro Things Fall Apart

Variante: If you don't like someone's story, write your own.
Origine: Things Fall Apart

“Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!”

Chinua Achebe libro Anthills of the Savannah

Origine: Anthills of the Savannah

“Charity… is the opium of the privileged.”

Chinua Achebe libro Anthills of the Savannah

Origine: Anthills of the Savannah

“There is no story that is not true.”

Chinua Achebe libro Things Fall Apart

Origine: Things Fall Apart

“When suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.”

Variante: When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

“When the moon is shining the cripple becomes hungry for a walk.”

Chinua Achebe libro Things Fall Apart

Origine: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 2 (p. 14)

“A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk.”

Chinua Achebe libro Things Fall Apart

Origine: Things Fall Apart

“The sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.”

Chinua Achebe libro Things Fall Apart

Origine: Things Fall Apart (1958), Chapter 1 (p. 11)

“When there is a big tree small ones climb on its back to reach the sun.”

Chinua Achebe libro No Longer at Ease

Origine: No Longer at Ease (1960), Chapter 10 (p. 95)

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