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Yambo Ouologuem Bound to Violence

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U Lužického semináře 10, Malá Strana

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Penguin Books Ltd

UK

2024

Paperback

240

Standard

321769

978-0-241-68080-3

0-241-68080-8

Fiction in translation

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A mock epic of explosive power, Bound to Violence races through the history of the imaginary African kingdom of Nakem, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Recounting the bloody adventures of successive inglorious dynasties, the arrival of white exploiters and the fates of ordinary, endlessly persecuted citizens – most notably the tragicomic, Paris-educated hero Raymond-Spartacus Kassoumi – this iconoclastic, outrageous 1968 novel takes a wry, sideways look at empire and nationalism, and at the sex, violence and power that run through human relationships.

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