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\nG.D.KILLAM  \nAssociate Professor of EnglishYork University,Toronto  \nBogazici University Library  \nHeinemann Educational Books48 Charles Street,London WIX 8AHPOB 2508o,Nairobi PMB 5205,IbadanEDINBURGH MELBOURNE TORONTOAUCKLAND HONG KONG SINGAPORENEW DELHI  \nge⁰Pe  \n9387.9  \n·A3Z7928-05-2001T  \nISBN 0435 I85004(hardback)ISBN 04351850I 2(paperback)  \nG.D.Killam I969First published I969Reprinted I97I  \nPermission to quote fromThings Fall Apart and No Longer at Easeis gratefully acnowledged  \nm Heinemann,Ltd and Astor Honor Inc.rom Arrow of God and Man of the Peopleto William Heinemann,Ltd and John Day Co.Inc.  \nnd fr  \nSet in Monotype Plantinand printed byCox&Wymans Ltd,London,Fakenham and Reading  \n·  \n…  \nContents  \nIntroductionpage I  \nThings Fall Apartpage I3  \nNo Longer at Easepage 35  \nArrow of Godpage 59  \nA Man of the Peoplepage 84  \nConclusion  \npage 97  \nNotes  \nBOGAZici  \nÜNIVERSITESI  \nKÜTÜPHANESI  \n421467  \nThis bookis dedicated tomy Mother,Father&Uncle  \n# Introduction\n\nCHINUA ACHEBE is Nigeria's best-known novelistand probably the best-known writer of fiction from blackAfrica.He has written four novels which are widely readin Africa and are now achieving an audience in Europe and NorthAmerica.Achebe attracted considerable attention when the pub-lication of his fourth book,AMan of the People-the closing scenesof which describe a military take-over from a corrupt civil régimein a West African country-coincided with the first military coupin Nigeria in January I966.His reputation rests principally on hisfirst novel,Things Fall Apart,published in I958,the first novel bya Nigerian writer to have serious claim to consideration as litera-ture.The novels which follow,No Longer at Ease,Arrow of Godand A Man of the People reveal no less certainly the serious approachAchebe takes to the craft of fiction.  \nSo much has been written about the anthropological and socio-logical significance of Things Fall Apart and Arrow of God-theirevocation of traditional nineteenth-and earlier twentieth-centuryIbo village life-so much about Achebe's attempt to write storieswhich have the components of Aristotelian tragedy,that the overallexcellence of these books as pieces of fiction,as works of art hasbeen obscured.Similarly,the other novels with their modernsettings have been seen as Achebe's analysis of the conflictingforces,political and social,which determine the quality of con-temporary Nigerian life,and the focus of critical attention paidthese aspects of the books has meant that scant attention has beenpaid them as works of literature.  \nAchebe recognizes that the societies he evokes in his books willbe generally unfamiliar to overseas readers.However carefully hesubordinates the background to the human life the novels create,it is the former element which will likely attract attention.And this  \nThe Novels of Chinua Achebe  \n2  \nis not without importance.These novels bring news of a strangepart of the world and of the values and attitudes of a group ofpeople who have only recently achieved prominence in worldaffairs.Modern African writing in one sense assists the decoloniza-tion process of peoples who have suffered the trauma of foreignconquest and the imposition of an alien culture.The appeal inthis direction of a writer's work,especially a writer in modernAfrica,is likely to be more local than general;but overseas readershave praised this aspect of Achebe's work.In this respect,as aninterpreter of the cultural worth of his society,Achebe is no differ-ent than other writers in other places and times.Like them hisclaim to being a novelist in the fullest sense of the word does notrest on his success within this limited area of the novelist's function.  \nMore recent comment on Achebe has sought to relate him to theliterary traditions of England.1 This is appropriate since not onl","cbCaih6lg8H5bJ7O","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaih6lg8H5bJ7O","pdf",6079440,112,"English","# 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