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House of Hunger

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House of Hunger
19.99 €
The debut novel of the Zimbabwean writer Dambuzo Marechera (1952-1987) “House of Hunger” can hardly be called an easy or pleasant reading, rather, this text is like a randomly heard scream, which begins to suck under a spoon and nauseate. In 1979, the House of Hunger received the prestigious literary award of the British newspaper The Guardian, critics put Marecher on the same board as Joyce, Kafka and Rimbaud - a comparison deafening for a third world author. The plot is based on the story of the growing up of a black boy who dreams of becoming a writer; the setting is Zimbabwe (Rhodesia), which by that time had not yet regained its independence and was under the control of white nationalists. Racial segregation, war crimes, political repression, the discovery of his own sexuality and frightening schizophrenic visions are just some of the circumstances that the protagonist has to deal with on the way to a dream. Full of sarcastic humor, poetic obsession and anarchistic uncompromisingness, this novel is akin to a shock to the heart overgrown with fat complacency, a cry that breaks the senile grumble of a full stomach, and is an undisguised contradiction, as is the world in which it was written and in which we still live.
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