![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The present study seeks to build upon the foundation they have constructed. These four critical works have served and continue to serve a useful purpose for new students of Achebe's writing. Wren's Achebe's World, was published in 1980 and provides important historical and anthropological background and annotation for the novels. Three of those books were first written more than fifteen years ago – although they have been revised since to take into account Achebe's short fiction and poetry – and they are concerned chiefly with describing the novels in terms of their central themes, conflicts and characters. Yet, although Achebe's first and most influential novel, Things Fall Apart, was published thirty years ago, critical discussion of his work as a whole has rarely moved beyond books designed as introductions. They have also provided a model for succeeding African novelists to follow and contend with. His novels and critical pronouncements have profoundly influenced his readers' understanding of Africans and their lives and have formed the basis for many a discussion of ‘the African novel’. ![]() C hinua A chebe is Africa's most widely read novelist and the first to be taken seriously by both African and European readers. ![]()
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