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The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming ...
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The title is derived from the apocalyptic vision appearing in Yeats' poem The Second Coming: "Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; / Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, / The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere / The ceremony of innocence is drowned; / The best lack all conviction, while the worst / Are full of passionate ...
Things Fall Apart is the debut novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe. It portrays the life of Okonkwo, a traditional influential leader of the fictional Igbo clan, Umuofia. He is a feared warrior and a local wrestling champion who opposed colonialism and the early Christian missionaries.
Things fall apart" is a short quotation from William Butler Yeats' poem "The Second Coming" (1920). Most other usages borrow from the poem: Things Fall Apart, a 1958 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe "Things Fall Apart", a 1981 holiday single by Cristina; Things Fall Apart, 1999 album by the hip hop band The Roots
Contemporary feminist scholar Anene Ejikeme notes that, since its publication in Western publishing outlets, Things Fall Apart has been celebrated as the authentic account of the late nineteenth-century Igbo experience during the colonial era. [8] Neil ten Kortenaar defines Achebe as a 'historian of Igboland'. [9]
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[173] [174] Things Fall Apart has been described as the most important book in modern African literature [175] and was described as his masterpiece by critic Dwight Garner. [176] Selling over 20 million copies worldwide, it has been translated into 57 languages, [177] making Achebe the most translated, studied, and read African author.