文档介绍：奥克瑞和《饥饿的路》
A Brief Life and Writings
Nigerian novelist, short story writer, and poet, one of the leading African writers.
Style
In his work Okri has experimented with new literary forms, different styles, genres, and traditions. Okri started as a realist, with postcolonial themes. After exploring with streamof consciousness Okri published novels which mixed realism, modernism, and oral forms, especially those of Yoruba culture.
This style has been characterized as an example of magic realism with African flavor, although the author himself has emphasized the realistic dimensions of his work - myths and local beliefs are part of the real world, urban life-world, not that they exist next to the real world.
"We are the miracles that God made
To taste the bitter fruit of Time.
We are precious.
And one day our suffering
Will turn into the wonders of earth."
(from ‘An African Elegy‘哀歌)
1959
a member of the Urhobo people
born in Minna
After his birth his father moved to England to study law. Okri spent his earliest years in Peckham, south London. He attended primary school in London but returned with his family to Nigeria aged seven.
His childhood was shadowed by the Nigerian civil war (the Biafran War)
After finishing his high school Okri worked as a clerk at a paint store. He failed to get a place at the university and started to write articles on social and political issues. Most of them were not published, but when he wrote short stories based on these articles, they found readers in women's journals and evening papers.
In 1978 Okri moved to England where he parative literature at Essex University.
This period was difficult in Okri's life - he wrote, slept occasionally on office floors and was forced to leave without taking a degree because lack of funds.
At the age of een pleted his first novel, Flowers and Shadows (1980, 《鲜花与阴影》)
The Landscape Within ( 《内部景观》) :1981,第二部长篇小说。
Incidents at the Shrine ( 《圣殿中的意外事件》): 1986,描写尼日利亚内战的长篇小说集。
Stars of the