As an aside...a lot of these families are still active. They are still bankers and you can see them in the social pages of outlets like the DailyMail, their children marrying each other in lavish ceremonies or the older ones emerging once in a while to go to charity balls. They use different surnames but they are still around.
I love the quote from Yeats. I looked up it’s relationship to Chinua Achebe’s novel and found this analysis of the poem, but found it astonishing that the analysis made no mention of Dante, who surely was the inspiration for both the poem and the novel. But then, I would not have known either if I had not taken up Vashik’s challenge to read the Comedia. Developing knowledge is a lot like Dante’s journey, following our guides from one level to the next. https://interestingliterature.com/2024/12/things-fall-apart-centre-cannot-hold-meaning/
As an aside...a lot of these families are still active. They are still bankers and you can see them in the social pages of outlets like the DailyMail, their children marrying each other in lavish ceremonies or the older ones emerging once in a while to go to charity balls. They use different surnames but they are still around.
Vashik - this is fascinating.
I love the quote from Yeats. I looked up it’s relationship to Chinua Achebe’s novel and found this analysis of the poem, but found it astonishing that the analysis made no mention of Dante, who surely was the inspiration for both the poem and the novel. But then, I would not have known either if I had not taken up Vashik’s challenge to read the Comedia. Developing knowledge is a lot like Dante’s journey, following our guides from one level to the next. https://interestingliterature.com/2024/12/things-fall-apart-centre-cannot-hold-meaning/