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Nigeria's New Man
Green, Robert | April 18, 1966 issue

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Writers of fiction are often soothsayers who have a disturbing power of foretelling the future: soon after Dostoevsky had begun serializing "Crime and Punishment," a murder very similar to Raskolnikov's was committed in Moscow; again, the Soviet novel, "The Trial Begins," prophesied the recent show-trial of its author, Andrei Sinyavsky. And now Chinua Achebe's fourth novel, "A Man of the People," ends with the overthrow of the government by the army in a newly independent African state. It is indeed very difficult to resist drawing a parallel between Achebe's last work of fiction and the recent upheavals in the author's Nigeria.

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FICTION; CRIME & Punishment (Book); MAN of the People, A (Book); SINYAVSKY, Andrei; ACHEBE, Chinua; NIGERIA
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