The House of Hunger Quotes

“As far as expressing the creative turmoil within my head was concerned, I took to the English language as a duck takes to water. I was therefore a keen accomplice and student in my own mental colonisation . . . For a black writer the language is very racist; you have to have harrowing fights and hair-raising panga duels with the language before you can make it do all that you want it to do . . . This may mean discarding grammar, throwing syntax out, subverting images from within, beating the drum and cymbals of rhythm, developing torture chambers of irony and sarcasm, gas ovens of limitless black resonance.”
― Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger

“As far as expressing the creative turmoil within my head was concerned, I took to the English language as a duck takes to water. I was therefore a keen accomplice and student in my own mental colonisation.”
― Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger

“Se alimentaba de descontento, pero aquello no le llenaba el estómago. Se alimentaba del odio que sentía por todo, pero aquello no saciaba su sed. Se alimentaba de sueños de todo tipo: de venganza, de perdón, de automutilación, del amor que se encuentra en todas partes. Pero aquello seguía sin llenar su estómago y sin saciar su sed. Porque era una sed extraña. Un hambre desconocida que lo había apartado de sí mismo, de sus amigos, de su familia, de todas las cosas del mundo del que procedía.”
― Dambudzo Marechera, The House of Hunger