by Amos Tutuola · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070757657
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«L'ivrogne dans la brousse» is the novel by Amos Tutuola, published in 2000 by Gallimard in paperback (136 pages, in French).
A palm-wine drinker, owner of 560,000 palm trees, loses his malafoutier, the man who prepared his drink, and sets off to find him in the City of the Dead. His journey through the jungle and a world of strange and terrible beings shapes a tale with the air of a fantastic story, written in English by Amos Tutuola and translated by Raymond Queneau.
It belongs to the Continents Noirs collection. The English original, «The Palm-Wine Drinkard», was published in 1952.
Readers interested in African literature, magical realism, and twentieth-century classics will find in this novel a singular work.
