Ferdinand Oyono

Citations

• “My master is thickset. His legs have great muscles like the legs of a pedlar. He is the kind of man we call ‘mahogany-trunk’ because the trunk of the mahogany tree is so strong that it never bends in a storm. I am not a storm. I am the thing that obeys.”

• “There are two worlds,” said Baklu, “ours is a world of respect and mystery and magic. Their world brings everything in the daylight, even the things that weren’t meant to be.”

• “Ah, these whites, she burst out. The dog can die of hunger beside his master’s meat. They don’t bury the goat up to the horns. They bury him altogether.”

• “I was alleviated by this discovery. It executed something within me … I realized I ought to never be startled of the Commandant again.”

• “If I talk it is because I have a mouth. If I see, it is because I have eyes. The eye goes farther and faster than the mouth, nothing stops it...”

Les livres de Ferdinand Oyono dans l'ordre

Les livres de Ferdinand Oyono dans l'ordre de parution, de Une Vie De Boy (1956) à Ecce Homo, Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (2007).

1. 1Une Vie De BoyUne Vie De Boy1956
2. 2Chemin d'EuropeChemin d'Europe1960
3. 3Ferdinand Oyono, écrivain camerounaisFerdinand Oyono, écrivain camerounais1964
4. 4HouseboyHouseboy1966
5. 5The Old Man and the MedalThe Old Man and the Medal1967
6. 6Boy!Boy!1970
7. 7Le Vieux Negre Et La MedailleLe Vieux Negre Et La Medaille1972
8. 8Road to EuropeRoad to Europe1989
9. 9Ecce Homo, Ferdinand Léopold OyonoEcce Homo, Ferdinand Léopold Oyono2007

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