Joyce Cary

Míster Johnson, un joven empleado africano del puesto colonial de Fada, en Nigeria, lleva una vida feliz. Ha conocido a Bamu, la muchacha más hermosa del lugar, y su empleo para la administración colonial le confiere un estatus privilegiado. Y aunque la comunidad indigena y la administracion britanica se confabulen contra el -las deudas lo acosan y sus jefes lo hostigan- nada podran contra su felicidad.

This is a reprint of Joyce Cary's first novel about Christianity versus paganism in Nigeria. It is a spare and violent book, as striking and stylized as Cary's later novels. Aissa, a foolish, emotional native girl, is hounded from her village when she has a son by a convict and she takes refuge in Christianity at a nearby mission. During a drought, the Christians are hunted down and Aissa is jailed as a witch, loses her child, escapes death and finally renounces Jesus. She is then persuaded by fanatic native friends to join another crusade against her village and burn their shrine. In the grim religious war that follows many are hideously killed and Aissa dies in a martydom closely paralleled by that of a pagan mother earlier. Mr. Cary's point is that their pagan religion, and through Aissa and a kaleidoscope of natives of all shades of civilization, he shows vividly many aspects of this difficult grafting of religions. It is a shocking and provocative story, heightened by the cool objectivity of its approach.

Mister Johnson, un joven empleado africano en el puesto colonial de Fada, en Nigeria, lleva una vida feliz. Ha conocido a Bamu, la muchacha más hermosa del lugar, y su empleo para la administración local le confiere un estatus privilegiado. Y aunque la c

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From her prison cell the irrepressible magnetic Sara Monday looks back on the past half century of her life in Herself Surprised Born into a poor family her employment while still a young girl as a cook in a middle class household set her on a colourful and picaresque path In To Be a Pilgrim Tom Wilcher a wealthy and disgraced lawyer who has been both Sara s employer and her lover has retreated to his estate near the end of his life to wrestle with his tormented conscience And the centre of The Horse s Mouth a charming talented impoverished artist named Gulley Jimson also a lover of Sara Monday is a restless rebellious and self serving scoundrel whose antics verge on the appalling and farcical Read together these three vigorous and unforgettable narrative voices offer a sweeping vision of the first half of the twentieth century that is lyrical profane tragic and comic all at once Published in 1941 1942 and 1944 the novels in Cary s trilogy were designed to reveal three complex characters not only as they see themselves but as they are seen by one another resulting in a work of three dimensional depth and force Family life just goes on Toughest thing in the world But of course it is also the microcosm of a world You get everything there