Teju Cole

Citations

• “I suddenly feel a vague pity for all those writers who have to ply their trade from sleepy American suburbs, writing divorce scenes symbolized by the very slow washing of dishes.”

• “Abuja, Nigeria’s capital city, rises out of the Sahel like a modernist apparition. The avenues are clean and broad and the government buildings are imposing, with that soulless, vaguely fascistic air common to all capitals cities of the world…”

• “To be alive, it seemed to me, as I stood there in all kinds of sorrow, was to be both original and reflection, and to be dead was to be split off, to be reflection alone.”

• “WE EXPERIENCE LIFE AS A CONTINUITY, AND ONLY AFTER IT FALLS away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.”

• “the hardest thing to deal with, after weeks of constant power cuts, is the noise of the generators”

Les livres de Teju Cole dans l'ordre

Les livres de Teju Cole dans l'ordre de parution, de Every Day Is for the Thief (2007) à Pharmakon (2024).

1. 1Every Day Is for the ThiefEvery Day Is for the Thief2007
2. 2Open CityOpen City2011
3. 3Kings CountyKings County2014
4. 4Vertraute Dinge, Fremde DingeVertraute Dinge, Fremde Dinge2016
5. 5Blind SpotBlind Spot2017
6. 6FernwehFernweh2020
7. 7Black PaperBlack Paper2021
8. 8Golden Apple of the SunGolden Apple of the Sun2021
9. 9TremorTremor2023
10. 10PharmakonPharmakon2024