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A Way Of Being Free
by
Ben Okri
In this inspirational volume, the Booker Prize-winning author of THE FAMISHED ROAD makes essays into an art form. The ten pieces in this beautifully crafted collection range from the personal to the analytical, including a meditation on the role of the poet, a study of Picasso's Minotaur, a paean to human freedom in honour of Salman Rushdie, and an appraisal of fellow-Nige...more
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Ben Okri’s fiction, non-fiction and poetry are a steady source of rejuvenation for the tired mind. I am reading and have been reading his collection of essays A Way of Being Free for more than a year. It’s a slim volume but the ideas it contains are astoundingly heavy. They require deep thinking and long digestion periods. I read a few lines, think about it and keep thinking long after so much so that I need to put the book down and a few weeks go by before I can pick it up again. In the meantim...more
1. a book about how to fight anger, rage and selfish inside ourself. people are born equal and have the same right to feel the pleasure of life.
2. giving a way out to others is not different with trying to understand others in ourself. (c wat i mean?)
3. everybody have their own childish personality but some aware of it and some don't, well... just try to understand what lies beneath your skin?
4. at least you'll look like an intelectual people, just in case when you die while you are reading this...more
2. giving a way out to others is not different with trying to understand others in ourself. (c wat i mean?)
3. everybody have their own childish personality but some aware of it and some don't, well... just try to understand what lies beneath your skin?
4. at least you'll look like an intelectual people, just in case when you die while you are reading this...more
a must reader for all reads ,essays from okri
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Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father. He grew up in London before returning to Nigeria with his family in 1968. Much of his early fiction explores the political violence that he witnessed at first hand during the civil war in Nigeria. He left the country when a grant from the Nigerian government enabled him to read Comparative...more
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“What hope is there for individual reality or authenticity when the forces of violence and orthodoxy, the earthly powers of guns and bombs and manipulated public opinion make it impossible for us to be authentic and fulfilled human beings?
The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.”
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The only hope is in the creation of alternative values, alternative realities. The only hope is in daring to redream one's place in the world - a beautiful act of imagination, and a sustained act of self becoming. Which is to say that in some way or another we breach and confound the accepted frontiers of things.”
“Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.”
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