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BLACK ORPHEUS
A journal of African and
Afro-American Literature
Edited by Ulli Beier,
E:zekiel Mphahlele, Wole Soyinka
ODU
A journal of Yoruba and
Related Studies
Edited by S. O. Biobaku
and H. U. Beier
YORUBA POETRY
A special publication of
Black Orpheus:
Traditional Yoruba Poems,
collected and translated by
Bakar e Gbadamosi and Ulli Beier
with eight silkscreen prints
and ten vignettes
by Susanne Wenger
$1.00 per copy
Published by
The General Publications Section
of the Ministry of Education
Western Region, Ibadan, Nigeria
and obtainable by mail in the
United States of America from
Negro Book Society
459 West 144th Street
New York 31, New York
vagueness over the troublesome
spot. In place of motivation, the
narrative is held together by
carefully designated symbols,
such as the two refrigerators,
the colored boy, the swimming
pool, etc. But emotional events
are arbitrary and shallowly ex–
plored.
Much has been made of the
fact that Philip Roth has found
a "voice," which means that
he has devised a personal and
consistent way of arranging his
materials so that his narrative
flows smoothly from one sen–
·tence to the next. This is cer–
tainly true, and it is a pleasure
to discover a writer whose tech–
nical equipment is so completely
adequate to the d e man d s
placed upon it. Yet one could
wish that the demands had
been greater, even
if
that
would entail a blurring of the
voice. As it stands, the price
Roth pays for smoothness is
too high: he cheats himself,
and cheats his readers of the
truth.
Jeremy Larner
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