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What The Tapster Saw | Ben Okri | Short Story | Explained in Urdu/Hindi
Ben Okri (15 March 1959)
Nigerian poet and novelist.
First novel Flowers and Shadows (1980)
Best known work The Famished Road
Magic Realist
First hand experience of Civil War in Nigeria
Mundane/Metaphysical/Individual/Collective
Introduction
Imaginary|Fantastic
Implied manner about vices of IMPERIALISM in life of African people
Imperials were sucking their blood day and night
Meaningless fairy tale with turtles, snake, cobwebs, magic paraphernalia |
Dark aspects of IMPERIALISM
Characters
The Tapster
Tabasco
Summary of What The Tapster Saw
Skilled Tapster
-Dreams that -- Died |
Meet Tabasco --- a herbalist
-"lot of horrible" | "Delta Oil Company" ( Trespassers will be persecuted )
Tapster saw: "horrors of war, poverty, collapse of bridges, roads, malarial swamps, creeks without names, human skeletons, mindless accidents, dogs turning into ghommids, an old man whi had died in sitting position while reading a bible upside down"
Being awakened by turtle that had Tabasco's face.
Night-mare about imperialism