RE: The Dying Body Chronicles 8: Story of my life

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I find your text interesting, a poetic text. It has certain characteristics reminiscent of absurd theatre, that narrative form whose main representatives include Ionesco and Samuel Beckett.

The voice has a content in which questions are posed - place, time, being - that go beyond what any human being can express or explain rationally.

At the end, in the last sentence and last allusion to the reader, I see that it is that of the main puppeteer. He who speaks sums up the world. Then the reading becomes clear, which until now appears obscure because God does not need interlocution. His presence is enough for clarity to appear.



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Oh I love theatre of the absurd. I think they very much explore the human condition without any attempt to appease the audience with some form of catharsis. And yes, I have been experimenting with writing stories that share similarities with the absurdist tradition.

I think at the end, I do not want to conform to the stereotype of how a story should be told, what form it should take and what subject. Presently, I am trying to get away from writing about trauma and sad things. It seems most African writers rarely write about happy things. Will trauma remain our only heritage? Have we not found happiness yet?

At the end, I seek to create new ways of expression, new forms of being. I may not be in the mainstream, in the limelight but you guys here are willing to give me honesty and truth and that is better for someone trying to build something new. So thank you always for your comments and feedbacks.

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