"The beautiful one has not yet been born" - The beautiful one has not yet been born

...He moved to Tanzania in 1970, then to Lesotho, and finally to the United States in 1979, where he continues to write abroad. His shocking debut work, "The Beauty Is Yet to Be Born" (1968), is set in the capital Accra, and vividly depicts, using the symbol of filth, the pathologies of a post-independence society without any reform of the colonial structure, such as corruption of organizations and leaders, the poor fawning on the arrogant rich, and the loss of human sympathy. His early trilogy, which includes the autobiographical "Shards" (1970) and "Why Are We So Blessed?" (1972), shows a painfully acute awareness of the current situation of a conscience isolated in a society obsessed with material desires. ...

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…70年タンザニアに移住，レソトを経て79年にはアメリカへ移り，国外で文筆活動を続けている。《美しき者いまだ生まれず》(1968)は，首都アクラを舞台に，植民地構造の変革なき独立後の社会が呈した，組織と指導者の腐敗，奢る富者にへつらう貧者，人間的交感力の喪失などの病状を，汚物のシンボルを用いて克明に描いた衝撃の処女作。自伝的要素をもつ《砕片》(1970)，《なぜに我ら，かくも祝福さる》(1972)に至る初期三部作は，物質欲にとりつかれた社会に孤立する良心の痛々しいまでに鋭敏な現状知覚を示した。…

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