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Please feel free to aid me if you are very familiar with this author.--Robert Waalk (talk) 22:09, 14 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Cover

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I think I have a case to maintain the old cover here. It is the first English edition, and on articles about recent novels I don't believe First Editions are needed to "display historical qualities". But in any case, this is English wikipedia article, it should have a picture of the English translation heading it.--Robert Waalk (talk) 22:41, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

As I explained on your talk page, Robert Waalk, that this is the English Wikipedia makes no difference. Were a suitable image of the original French first edition cover found, it should replace the current infobox image as per the novel guidelines. María (habla conmigo) 23:13, 21 October 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Deleted "Paths to Contemporary French Literature"

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This passage needs to be more appropriately quoted in The Interrogation


"Do you know Le Clezio?". Nathaniel Otting. 2008-10-10. Retrieved 10 December 2008.

Taylor, John (2006-12-15). Paths to Contemporary French Literature. Transaction Publishers,U.S. ISBN 978-0765803702. {{cite book}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)CS1 maint: year (link)


Stadt (talk) 20:30, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Accuracy of Summary Plot

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The plot summary is not quite accurate. In the last chapter "far from Onitsha", Fintan writes Marima in "winter 1968" about the Onitsha he knew as a child in contrast to the present Onitsha under the Biafran war, but he also expresses his frustration for never being able to travel back to Onitsha. I would suggest to change the last sentence of the summary plot and also there is a typo in the sentence "to the port of Marseillesto sail " => to the port of Marseille to sail... --Kwulffert (talk) 13:35, 18 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

I have corrected the plot summary to improve it`s verifiability .

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    "Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels in the year 1948 from Bordeaux to the port of Marseillesto sail in a ship along the coast of Africa to the mouth of the Niger River to Onitsha in colonial Nigeria with his Italian mother (nicknamed Maou).

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      Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who sails in a ship from Bordeaux to the port of Marseilles to sail along the coast of Africa to the mouth of the Niger River to Onitsha in colonial Nigeria with his Italian mother (nicknamed Maou) in the year 1948.

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    They are travelling in order to meet Geoffroy Allen (Fintan's English father) whom Fintan has never met.

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      They were intending to meet Geoffroy Allen (Fintan's English father) whom Fintan has never met.

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    Depicts a childhood in the semi-autobiographical style.

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      Onitsha depicts childhood, because it is written semi-autobiographically.

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    In the end, the family is forced to leave Nigeria when his father's business goes under, and Fintan finds himself attending school in Great Britain. The movement is very painful for him, and as an adult he returns to Africa to travel and revisit the places he had once known and loved in an attempt to revive and relive them only to find that it is impossible

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      Eventually, Fintan's father loses his job with the United Africa Company and moves the family first to London, then to the south of France.Sabine Rhodes, another British National, already a miscast in the colony recognises the inevitable:"The days are numbered for all of us, all of us! The empire is finished, signorita, it's crumbling on every side, turning to dust; the great ship of empire is sinking. But I shan't leave. I shall stay here to see it all, that's my mission, my vocation, to watch the ship go under" The novel ends on a note of rebellion against the white rulers and points towards the coming of the neocolonialism of conglomerates which would finally begin another form of economic exploitation of a country rich in oil.--
      Stadt (talk) 21:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Removed

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It is considered by some to be the most important of Le Clézio's works dealing with his childhood in Africa under colonial rule
Yillah, Dauda (April 2008). "Envisioning Difference in Le Clézio's Onitsha". Society for French Studies. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/fs/knm255. Retrieved 2008-10-21. {{cite journal}}: Text "Society for French Studies,volume 62,issue 2,pages 173-187" ignored (help)

This item requires a subscription* to French Studies Online.Dauda Yillah only wrote that [ Onitsha]is to date the most important fictional piece the author has devoted to his childhood experience of colonial black Africanot that [ Onitsha] is the most important of Le Clézio's works (just because it deals with his childhood in Africa under colonial rule).He means it's devoted to his experience of British-ruled Nigeria of the late 1940s.Maybe a better formulation can be written.--Stadt (talk) 21:50, 21 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

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