Your views on 'SidhaivugaL' (Tamil translation of Chinua Achiebe's "Things Fall Apart")

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Your views on 'SidhaivugaL' (Tamil translation of Chinua Achiebe's "Things Fall Apart") Your views on 'SidhaivugaL' (Tamil translation of Chinua Achiebe's "Things Fall Apart")

Topic started by Srini (@ 61.11.72.44) on Fri Jan 18 04:25:23 .
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Dear friends:

I read 'SidhaivugaL', a Tamil translation of acclaimed Nigerian writer Chinua Achiebe's maiden novel "Things Fall Apart", which he wrote in 1958. Mr. Mahalingam, a Tamil endowed with several years of work experience in Nigeria has done the great job of translating this devastating work.

Frankly, I felt too overpowered and humbled by the brief and powerful novel. If I could use a correct Tamil term to express my state of mind after I read that book, "oru vidhamaana 'thavippu' aerpattuvittadhu". The sense of helplessness and dispossession that the protagonist of the novel becomes our own.

I am sorry to intiate this discussion in English since I have failed to learn posting in Tamil fonts and also since I keep changing workplaces, I could not download required Tamil fonts wherever I go. Kindly pardon me for using English to converse about a great recent work on Tamil.

I look forward to your views.

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From: The Other Guy (@ 202.12.233.21) on: Thu Feb 14 21:50:25

Srini,
I have no read it .Could you elaborate
what is this novel about and means to get a copy of it .
From: Srini (@ 61.11.72.44) on: Fri Feb 15 00:57:49

The Other Guy:

Thanks. You can get that book from the following address:

Kalachuvadu Padhipagam,
669, K P Salai,
Nagarkoil
Tamilnadu 629001
Phone: 04652-222525
Fax: 04652-231160
Email: kalachuvadu@vsnl.com

The book, as I have said above, is a Tamil translation of a great work n English by Nigerian writer.

This one run only about 184 pages, sleek and very readable. The pain of seeing one's value/ belief systems crumble with the advent of modernity or other religion is captured well. The author does not take a position for or against the preservance of nativity, and leaves that to the reader.

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