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The book follows the journey of Omovo, an artist and paintet whose inner landscapes mirror the complexities of his mind. The story unfolds an exploration of the significance behind the chosen title, The Landscapes Within, which symbolizes Omovo's internal struggles and triumphs.
The story attacked corruption in newly independent Nigeria and tells of a successful businessman whose jealous relatives make his life difficult. Okri's second...
1 de ene. de 1981 · The landscapes within. Ben Okri. 2.63. 8 ratings1 review. Genres Fiction. 296 pages, Paperback. First published January 1, 1981. Book details & editions. About the author. Ben Okri. 49 books889 followers. Follow. Poet and novelist Ben Okri was born in 1959 in Minna, northern Nigeria, to an Igbo mother and Urhobo father.
This paper begins with an initial justification of the chosen title and argues for the idea of The Landscapes Within effectively becoming the eponymous hero of a tale, the trajectory of which is the inner workings of the mind of the artist-protagonist, Omovo.
Booker Prize-winning author Ben Okri’s latest novel, this tale of the time immediately before the arrival of the Atlantic slave trade restores a lost history to Okri’s Nigerian homeland.
In 1981, Nigerian author Ben Okri published The Landscapes Within, a novel about a young painter's life and creative aspirations.
1 de oct. de 2013 · The critique of The Landscapes Within in this article focuses on the ‘unachieved', in the context of Omovo's stolen, confiscated and unfinished paintings, and Kundera's three categories of art: the art of radical divestment, the art of novelistic counterpoint, and the art of the specifically novelistic essay.
