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schiarire asked me to add Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure to my reading list. I don't know quite what to say about this book - although it's got the loose form of a novel, it's more of a philosophical argument than a story, following Sambo Diallo of the Diallobe tribe in Senegal from childhood on as he and everyone else around him debates on his education, and, on a larger scale, colonization, modernization, and religion. Ji, you are going to think I'm crazy for making this comparison, but I kind of reacted to the philosophy in kind of the same way I reacted to the stream-of-consciousness To the Lighthouse. When I was with him, I was completely with him; when I wasn't, I really wasn't. The religion thing is part of that, and part of that, of course, is that, I'm very much part of the culture he's critiquing. Those two things were so tied together in the philosophy that I ended up finding it difficult to separate them in my reaction. So I don't know.
schiarire asked me to add Cheikh Hamidou Kane's Ambiguous Adventure to my reading list. I don't know quite what to say about this book - although it's got the loose form of a novel, it's more of a philosophical argument than a story, following Sambo Diallo of the Diallobe tribe in Senegal from childhood on as he and everyone else around him debates on his education, and, on a larger scale, colonization, modernization, and religion. Ji, you are going to think I'm crazy for making this comparison, but I kind of reacted to the philosophy in kind of the same way I reacted to the stream-of-consciousness To the Lighthouse. When I was with him, I was completely with him; when I wasn't, I really wasn't. The religion thing is part of that, and part of that, of course, is that, I'm very much part of the culture he's critiquing. Those two things were so tied together in the philosophy that I ended up finding it difficult to separate them in my reaction. So I don't know.
