The Black Insider.




Words are the chemicals that H2O human intercourse...Everywhere you go, some shit word will collide with you on the wrong side of the road. You can't even hide yourself because your thoughts think of themselves in the words you have been taught to read and write.
Marechera.

And The Black Insider never allows the reader to forget how we possess what Eco (in his latest novel) calls our "paper memory" such that texts mesh with the tissue of life. The range of literary texts in The Black Insider records something of Marechera's own "paper memory":



Abrahams

Achebe
Anixamander
Apuleius
Aristophanes
Armah
Arnold
Austen
Barthes
Beti
The Bible
Blackmore
Blake
Boccaccio
Brontes
Burroughs
Capote
CarrollCastaneda
Caswall/Clairvaux
Cervantes
Chandler
Chaucer
Chekov
Coleridge
Conrad
De SadeDefoe
Dickens
Donne
Dostoevsky
Euripedes
Everyman-dramatist
Fanon
Faulkner
Fitzgerald
Forster
G. Eliot
T.S.Eliot
Gibbon
Gibbons
Gogol
Grass
Haley
Hamsun
Hasek
Heraclitus
Hesse
Homer
L.Hughes
James
Jones/Baraka
Joyce
Kafka
Kipling
Lawrence
Lermontov
Mailer
Mann
Marcuse
Marlowe
Melville
Mishima
Montaigne
Mtshali
Ngugi
Okara
Okigbo
Orwell
Peacock
Peake
The Pearl-poet
Peters
Petronius
Pushkin
The Rood-poet
Samkange
Senghor
Shabistari
Shakespeare
Shaw
Shelley
Soyinka
Sterne
Stevenson
D.Thomas.
Tolstoy
Trollope
Turgenev
Virgil
Voltaire
Wilde
Wittgenstein
Wordsworth
Yeats

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