Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays
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On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0374508607
ISBN13:9780374508609
Release Date:January 1971
Publisher:Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Length:336 Pages
Weight:0.80 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"
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5 ratings
nice surprise
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
I had to order this book for a class and was not really looking forward to reading it, however, I must say the plays are EXCELLENT. There is a reason Walcott has been so well received among the literary world. These plays are interesting and very imaginative, plus Walcott always gives your vocabulary a good work out!
Walcott is an interesting writer
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
This was required for a theatre class. To get the full gist of this play you need to research African roots, myths, and superstitions. I Enjoyed it.
Nice play
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 17 years ago
I had to read it a few times to understand what was really going on. Because it is written in a Creole dialect it was some what hard to understand, but if you re-read where you are confused you can easily figure it out. It's a very nice story about a poor, old, sad black man, and his yearning for home.
Genius!
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 20 years ago
Walcott is a genius. These early works are among the first indications that he was to be a the literary master.
Very interesting
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 23 years ago
I did this book for my literature class and I thought it was vey interesting. It reminded me somewhat of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man". This book is vey interesting and is written by a man who is basically a minority where he is from due to his religion and up bringing. The book's main character is Makak who is ashamed of his identity as a black man and idealizes the moon because it is white. Eventually he learns to accept himself as he is.
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