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Despite his confusion, Bodoni, nicknamed “Yambo,” is soon discharged from the hospital. He returns home with his wife Paola, with whom he has had several children and, apparently, led a happy life, despite the occasional extramarital dalliance...
...Yambo describes the mechanisms he quickly develops to distinguish former mistresses from the other total strangers who greet him in the streets. Although he first describes Paola as beautiful despite her years, this seems to have little hold over Yambo’s attention; he quickly becomes preoccupied with finding out whether he has had an affair with the pretty Eastern European who assists him in his office...
BOUND TO VIOLENCE, by Yambo Ouologuem. A young Mali novelist's exuberant mock epic of the bloody history of a real but imaginary African empire...
BOUND TO VIOLENCE by Yambo Ouologuem. Translated by Ralph Manheim. 182 pages. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich...
Nothing less savage-or less funny -than Anthony Hecht's couplet commentary on Aesop, the slave as moralist, should introduce this small masterpiece on man's ingenious cruelty to man. Yambo Ouologuem (pronounced Oo-o-lo-guem), born 30 years ago in the French Sudan, now the Republic of Mali, writes from the point of view of victim. But what a victim...