
Cărți de Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (; born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart (1958), often considered his masterpiece, is the most widely read book in modern African literature.
Raised by his parents in the Igbo town of Ogidi in southeastern Nigeria, Achebe excelled at Government College Umuahia and won a scholarship to study medicine, but changed his studies to English literature at University College (now the University of Ibadan). He became fascinated with world religions and traditional African cultures, and began writing stories as a university student. After graduation, he worked for the Nigerian Broadcasting Service (NBS) and soon moved to the metropolis of Lagos. He gained worldwide attention for his novel Things Fall Apart in the late 1950s; his later novels include No Longer at Ease (1960), Arrow of God (1964), A Man of the People (1966), and Anthills of the Savannah (1987). Achebe wrote his novels in English and defended the use of English, a "language of colonisers," in African literature. In 1975, his lecture "An Image of Africa: Racism in Conrad's Heart of Darkness" featured a criticism of Joseph Conrad as "a thoroughgoing racist;" it was later published in The Massachusetts Review amid controversy.
When the region of Biafra broke away from Nigeria in 1967, Achebe became a supporter of Biafran independence and acted as ambassador for the people of the new nation. The civil war that took place over the territory, commonly known as the Nigerian Civil War, ravaged the populace, and as starvation and violence took its toll, he appealed to the people of Europe and the Americas for aid. When the Nigerian government retook the region in 1970, he involved himself in political parties but soon resigned due to frustration over the corruption and elitism he witnessed. He lived in the United States for several years in the 1970s, and returned to the U.S. in 1990, after a car crash left him partially disabled.
A titled Igbo chief himself, Achebe focuses his novels on the traditions of Igbo society, the effect of Christian influences, and the clash of Western and traditional African values during and after the colonial era. His style relies heavily on the Igbo oral tradition, and combines straightforward narration with representations of folk stories, proverbs, and oratory. He also published a large number of short stories, children's books, and essay collections.
Upon Achebe's return to the United States in 1990, he began an eighteen-year tenure at Bard College as the Charles P. Stevenson Professor of Languages and Literature. From 2009 until his death, he served as David and Marianna Fisher University Professor and Professor of Africana Studies at Brown University.


Things Fall Apart
Penguin Modern Classics

Africa's Tarnished Name
Penguin Modern

There Was a Country: A Personal History of Biafra

The Education of a British-Protected Child
Penguin Modern Classics

No Longer at Ease
Penguin Modern Classics

Arrow of God
Penguin Modern Classics

Anthills of the Savannah
Penguin Modern Classics

Things Fall Apart (Maxnotes Literature Guides)
MAXnotes

Things Fall Apart: York Notes for GCSE
York Notes

The Trouble with Nigeria

This Is Not a Border: Reportage & Reflection from the Palestine Festival of Literature

Collected Poems

Home And Exile

Chike and the River (English)
Cambridge Eleven Readers

A Man of the People
Penguin Modern Classics

Alles zerfällt
Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe, nr. 90574

Conversations with Chinua Achebe
Literary Conversations

African Short Stories
Heinemann African Writers Series

Achebe, C: AWS Classics No Longer at Ease
Heinemann African Writers Series: Classics

How the Leopard Got His Claws

Termitenhügel in der Savanne
Fischer Klassik

Einer von uns
Fischer Klassik

Der Pfeil Gottes
Fischer Klassik

Heimkehr in ein fremdes Land
Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe, nr. 90613

Wie man unsere Namen schreibt
Fischer Taschenbücher Allgemeine Reihe, nr. 95020

The Anchor Book of Modern African Stories

The Miseducation of Obi Ifeanyi

Things Fall Apart (original edition)

The African Trilogy: Things Fall Apart No Longer at Ease Arrow of God

Hopes and Impediments: Selected Essays

Chike and the River

Girls at War and Other Stories

Okonkwo oder Das Alte stürzt
Afrika erzählt - Hörbuchedition mit Romanen aus Schwarzafrika

Things Fall Apart- Classics in Context
Heinemann African Writers Series
