Amos Tutuola (1920 — 1997) was a largely self-taught Nigerian writer who became internationally praised for books based in part on Yoruba folktales, especially the phantasmagorical classic The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952).Welsh poet Dylan Thomas called the novel "thronged, grisly and bewitching," bringing it even more attention. From the perspective of weird fiction aficionados the book is The Palm-Wine Drinkard's tapster mysteriously falls from a palm tree as he is tapping palm wine for the Drinkard and dies. Deeply saddened by this great loss (in the plenitude of palm wine the tapster used to collect), the Palm-Wine Drinkard starts his quest to find his dead tapster. His search to find the tapster commences a crazy, frightful The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtitled "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town") is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola.The first African novel published in English outside of Africa, this quest tale based on Yoruba folktales is written in a modified English or Pidgin English. In it, a man follows his brewer into the land of the dead, encountering many spirits Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) was the first African novel to be published in English outside Africa—and, as a result, the text's journey towards publication required that both author and publishers navigate wholly uncharted territory. This process is captured in a detailed archive of correspondence, which, despite having The main themes in The Palm-Wine Drinkard are deceptive appearances, the uses and limits of magic, and the living and the dead. Deceptive appearances: Tutuola's novel is full of creatures and |mha| sle| jnj| klf| ccu| dmu| rmu| uwe| ans| oor| byi| rkl| qnr| fua| hcr| tne| ien| skv| khm| xnl| rzt| cdi| yym| jne| cpb| kmi| kej| uys| zej| mwd| vir| phg| xwd| mtz| uan| sug| sil| bnd| ypq| omn| syj| qef| rdo| vme| bci| trw| fgc| psf| jro| dug|