Author: PETER CAREY
Title: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Description: faber and faber, 1994. Pocket. Pp: 422. Returning once more to his constant concern with colonialism, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994) is an allegorical account of the relationship between two fictional countries. Voorstand, a huge northern hemisphere land mass with a strong, if slowly decaying, popular culture, slyly but effectively dominates, both militarily and culturally, the smaller and scattered southern dominions of Efica, "a country so unimportant that you are already confusing the name with Ithaca or Africa" (p. 5). Carey gives us these two countries completely, and the text is replete with their histories, mythologies, languages and legends. Incorporating many elements of the grotesque, including the marvellous invention of the Voorstandish "Sirkus", this work is an amazing allegory of colonialism, a picaresque account of the life of Tristan Smith, severely damaged at birth but determined to make his mark on the cultural map of his country. ISBN: 9780571175048. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780571175048
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Title: The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith
Description: faber and faber, 1994. Pocket. Pp: 422. Returning once more to his constant concern with colonialism, The Unusual Life of Tristan Smith (1994) is an allegorical account of the relationship between two fictional countries. Voorstand, a huge northern hemisphere land mass with a strong, if slowly decaying, popular culture, slyly but effectively dominates, both militarily and culturally, the smaller and scattered southern dominions of Efica, "a country so unimportant that you are already confusing the name with Ithaca or Africa" (p. 5). Carey gives us these two countries completely, and the text is replete with their histories, mythologies, languages and legends. Incorporating many elements of the grotesque, including the marvellous invention of the Voorstandish "Sirkus", this work is an amazing allegory of colonialism, a picaresque account of the life of Tristan Smith, severely damaged at birth but determined to make his mark on the cultural map of his country. ISBN: 9780571175048. Cond./Kwaliteit: Goed.
Keywords: 9780571175048
Price: EUR 5.00 = appr. US$ 5.43 Seller: De Slegte
- Book number: 2506922
- Book number: 2506922
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