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...Bowles has solved two great problems that still nag at the more old-fashioned novelist-the invention of a story and the creation of character. In this book, the character writes the story. He is Driss ben Hamed Charhadi, a North African Arab whose language is Moghrebi (an Arabic dialect), and who has been shepherd, baker's deliveryman, carpenter and kif salesman. With the encouragement of Bowles and the help of a tape recorder, Charhadi narrated the life of a fatherless child growing up in the boondocks of French Morocco. A horrible life it is-on the move, short...
...reference to "lesser breeds without the law." Added are 122 new texts, including such non-Methodist favorites as The Old Rugged Cross and How Great Thou Art. Also new are 91 all-but forgotten hymns by John and Charles Wesley, a number of Negro spirituals (cleansed of dialect wording), tunes and lyrics borrowed from Anglican, Lutheran and Roman Catholic hymnals. But the hymnal committee, Kennedy explained, did draw certain lines: it firmly rejected I Want to Be a Jesus Cowboy in the Holy Ghost Corral...
...couple of rousing drinking songs, some Rabelaisian belly laughs, and one or two tenderly erotic lyrics. Otherwise the reader who is not a hard-core enthusiast will find the collection disappointing. The scholarly apparatus smothers the poems. What is worse for the prurient reader, Burns's Scottish dialect, which he usually trimmed to understandable proportions in his published work, is here often incomprehensible-even the dirty words...
...scorn rang a trifle hollow. Although he possesses a medical degree from the University of Dakar, Houphouet has been known to consult the omens of juju himself before making decisions, and even his name has a special juju meaning. In his native Baoule dialect, Houphouet means "pit of excrement"-a phrase intended to scare off devils...
...these spirited short stories, Sillitoe's characters command a rich dialect in which the underdog facetiousness blurs but does not hide wary resentment or cynical despair. In their softer moments, they would like to live like their betters-ride bikes, wear cloth caps, eat fish and chips, play the football pools, and watch the telly on a paid-up set. For those simple pleasures of the poor, sex and the bottle, they have the same words: they "have a bash...