Author: Naipaul, V.S.
Title: The masque of Africa. Glimpses of African belief.
Description: London, Picador. 2010. Soft cover. Good. l 325 pp. There are paragraphs in which the prose rises to the level of this author's fictional masterpieces, as when Naipaul writes of the Fang adepts of Gabon, making their hallucinogen-powered astral journeys, accompanied by gombi harpists whose instruments are notionally strung with the intestines of the first ancestors, the first men of the forest: "In the roar of the dancing yard I saw him as a minor figure, contributing little. (From a review in the Guardian.)
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Title: The masque of Africa. Glimpses of African belief.
Description: London, Picador. 2010. Soft cover. Good. l 325 pp. There are paragraphs in which the prose rises to the level of this author's fictional masterpieces, as when Naipaul writes of the Fang adepts of Gabon, making their hallucinogen-powered astral journeys, accompanied by gombi harpists whose instruments are notionally strung with the intestines of the first ancestors, the first men of the forest: "In the roar of the dancing yard I saw him as a minor figure, contributing little. (From a review in the Guardian.)
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- Book number: 160429
- Book number: 160429
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