Mister Johnson - Joyce Cary

Mister Johnson (1939) is the last of Joyce Cary's four novels drawn from his experience in the British colonial service in Nigeria from 1913 to 1919. The "Mister Johnson" who gives the book its title is an ebullient, dream-filled native clerk away from home and family, unknowingly at sea in a world he cannot comprehend. "Johnson swims gaily on the surface of life," says Cary in a prefatory essay--throwing parties, drinking wine, making sons ("he is a poet who creates for himself a glorious destiny"), all the while accumulating debt. And when his errors in judgment lead to his killing a white man, Johnson faces his probable execution with naïve disbelief. In 1991, Mister Johnson was made into film by Australian director Bruce Beresford (Driving Miss Daisy, Paradise Road).

data wydania

1989 (data przybliżona)

ISBN

0811210308

liczba stron

227

słowa kluczowe

kolonializm; rasizm; powieść

język

angielski