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39 Absurdistan 39 brutishness 39 Ayi Kwei Armah 39 Shakespearean drama 39 nameless narrator 39 philosopher Slavoj Zizek 39 blackly comic 39 neorealism 39 Martin Chuzzlewit 39 Lionel Rogosin 39 slave dungeons 39 archetypically 39 deliriously funny 39 medieval fiefdom 39 Manichean worldview 39 supernatural goings 39 evocations 39 diabolism 39 deftly captures 39 Felliniesque 39 Ryszard Kapuscinski 39 Márai 39 Roman Polanski Chinatown 39 nuanced portrayal 38 One Maurice Zolotow 38 Mengestu 38 quasi autobiographical 38 neorealist 38 Ter Borch 38 naive idealism 38 Tito Yugoslavia 38 de Balzac 38 painter Marc Chagall 38 fertile Rift Valley 38 Grimm fairytale 38 flâneur 38 unworldliness 38 shabby genteel 38 Hadji Murad 38 fabulism 38 melodramas 38 soullessness 38 knavery 38 socially stratified 38 impressionistic portrait 38 suspenseful tale 38 Sainte Beuve 38 grand guignol 38 lyric poetry 38 Jacobean tragedy 38 fable 38 utopian socialist 38 Mordden 38 poetic sensibility 38 Grover Corners 38 Maycomb Ala. 38 Jhumpa Lahiri novel 38 urbanity 38 Shavian 38 Huneven 38 cruel ironies 38 author JT LeRoy 38 repressed sexuality 38 Mengistu Hailemariam 38 wickedly witty 38 Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam 38 semi autobiographical tale 38 Gimlette 38 Absurdist 38 futuristic dystopian 38 picaresque journey 38 Hindu epics 38 garrulousness 38 warrior Shaka Zulu 38 Crony capitalism 38 Odets 38 Drama Mex 38 idylls 38 rollicking romp 38 loosely autobiographical 38 beguiling charm 38 Symbolists 38 unpoetic 38 suburbia 38 Rudyard Kipling classic 38 historiographical 38 unsentimental portrait 38 picturesquely 38 Mario Puzo novel 38 hardboiled detective 38 descriptive prose 38 Shakespearian tragedy 38 Sylvania Waters 38 postbellum 38 Logan Mountstuart 38 journalist Rula Jebreal 37 Isadora Wing 37 Habsburg empire 37 Eilis Lacey 37 melodrama 37 Mao Zedong Cultural Revolution 37 Sir Abubakar Tafawa 37 Larry Gopnik 37 Brothers Grimm fairy tales 37 doubleness 37 tragedians 37 slackerdom 37 King Cetshwayo 37 prose stylists 37 Italian Futurists 37 ancient ethnic hatreds 37 Hemingwayesque 37 Weimar cabaret 37 Ahmadou Ahidjo 37 insubstantiality 37 absolutist monarchy 37 wilder shores 37 spellbindingly 37 Marc Uyttendaele 37 Dickens novels 37 Philip Ogunmade 37 Wilhelmine Germany 37 non conformism 37 writes Philippa Hawker 37 Tensions simmer 37 despotic 37 mercurial moods 37 Matabeleland massacres 37 Gormenghast 37 Le Carré 37 fin de siècle 37 joylessness 37 languor 37 puniness 37 Eva Duarte 37 Bram Stoker classic 37 attraction repulsion 37 Henri Christophe 37 clashing civilizations 37 Edwardian eras 37 poet William Wordsworth 37 Nicolae Ceausescu dictatorship 37 neo realism 37 Daniil Kharms 37 bucolic bliss 37 detective Kurt Wallander 37 Le Cid 37 roman clef 37 postcolonial literature 37 tawdry tale 37 Zelary 37 Gikuyu 37 Ancient Evenings 37 peripatetic childhood 37 overly romanticized 37 petit bourgeois 37 eccentricities 37 anticolonial 37 rivetingly 37 magic realism 37 Vergès 37 multicultural melting pot 37 vengeful ghost 37 novelized 37 colonial 37 homicidal barber 37 Dostoyevskian 37 cosmopolitan metropolis 37 Nicolae Ceausescu Romania 37 weaves tale 37 avant la lettre 37 Hemon 37 leafy suburbia 37 fictionalization 37 vaulting ambition 37 soaringly 37 liberal interventionism 37 Faustian tale 37 German expressionism 37 Pierre Assouline 37 idiocies 37 contempo 36 dandyism 36 Hotel Le Grazie 36 novelist Gustave Flaubert 36 Brazza 36 grotesque caricature 36 priggishness 36 Grimm fairytales 36 Kafka Metamorphosis 36 barbarisms 36 Homeric epic 36 unpeopled 36 Father Lankester Merrin 36 miserabilist 36 Captain Alatriste 36 Mongol warlord 36 moral ambiguities 36 Norman Rockwellian 36 seamy underside 36 utopian dreamers 36 psychogeography 36 cultural milieu 36 ingenuousness 36 sendups 36 Dahomey 36 roaring twenties 36 everydayness 36 Algernon Blackwood 36 Menelik II 36 sensualist 36 mythmakers 36 sojourned 36 Chekhovian 36 abjection 36 Engrossing 36 disaffected slackers 36 aristocratic upbringing 36 elegiac tone 36 stifling conformity 36 madcap romp 36 lyrical prose 36 agrarianism 36 sardonically funny 36 ripping yarns 36 Oriental despotism 36 Leopold Senghor 36 metier 36 sublime silliness 36 utter lawlessness 36 fons et 36 utopian socialism 36 man cub Mowgli 36 Grand Trianon 36 morality tales 36 ballerina Margot Fonteyn 36 Acholi tribe 36 panegyric 36 timeless tale 36 yeoman farmer 36 Alexandre Dumas fils 36 Pirandellian 36 megalomanic 36 Hutu Tutsi 36 author Chinua Achebe 36 historicism 36 Jacques Mesrine 36 absorbingly 36 cosmopolitan flair 36 nineteen twenties 36 salesman Willy Loman 36 Constance Fenimore Woolson 36 irrevocably intertwined 36 magic realist 36 Grimms fairy tale 36 unflinching portrayal 36 Catfish Row 36 perfidies 36 underworlds 36 Tintin au 36 virulent anti Americanism 36 Eighteenth Brumaire 36 Francophilia 36 Sekou Toure 36 netherworlds 36 harsh realties 36 overdetermined 36 antiheroic 36 militias overthrew socialist 36 cinema vérité 36 scrubby plains 36 venality 36 petite bourgeoisie 36 hippy commune 36 Cthulhu mythos 36 vicissitude 36 sheer ordinariness 36 Kpelle 36 cartoonishness 36 peregrinations 36 unconventionality 36 eccentric 36 urbane sophistication 36 belle époque 36 social tapestry fraying 36 Hogarthian 36 Abdel Raouf Dafri 36 monoethnic 36 Skylight Confessions 36 darkly comic 36 Bokassa 36 opera buffa 36 neo feudal 36 Lucy Grealy 36 JM Coetzee Disgrace 36 darkly ironic 36 formerly Zaire 36 utopian ideals 36 faded Southern belle 36 Mamah Borthwick Cheney 36 dystopian vision 36 absurdism 36 knob gags 36 childlike whimsy 36 phantasmal 36 civilizing influence 36 sleuth Hercule Poirot 36 Zairian 36 existentialist 36 raped pillaged 36 bloodless overthrow 36 parable 36 J. Maarten Troost 35 futuristic dystopia 35 seamy underbelly 35 historical antecedents 35 rebarbative 35 hipsterism 35 Bob Denard 35 gothic tale 35 pastorals 35 pseudo intellectualism 35 neo classicism 35 grandiloquence 35 critcally wounded 35 Elmore Leonard novels 35 novelist Wallace Stegner 35 unflinching realism 35 kitchen sink realism 35 mordantly funny 35 immiserated 35 Kipling Jungle Book 35 primness 35 gothic novels 35 dysfunctionalities 35 musty corridors 35 archaism 35 contemporary resonances 35 demimonde 35 expensively educated 35 squalid slums 35 absurdist comedy 35 mawkish sentimentality 35 archetype 35 epical 35 wholly believable 35 Houphouët Boigny 35 Faulknerian 35 Marcel Pagnol vision 35 obituarists 35 personalistic 35 grotesqueries 35 sybarite 35 exoticized 35 époque 35 sordidness 35 sentimentalized 35 clannishness 35 polymorphously perverse 35 industrialism 35 imperial splendor 35 mythologizes 35 Anglophilic 35 cosmopolite 35 Pierre Lacotte 35 snobberies 35 bleakly comic 35 fairy tale 35 metanarrative 35 bohemia 35 noirish thriller 35 riveting 35 poetries 35 inextricably interwoven 35 warrior Saladin 35 tribal animosities 35 humble upbringing 35 rampant materialism 35 Tóibín 35 morality tale 35 decencies 35 bourgeoise 35 Homer Odysseus 35 futureless 35 littleness 35 Evelyn Waugh novel 35 travails 35 blackly humorous 35 leafy suburbs 35 Sophie Okonedo Hotel 35 glorifications 35 Barbara Covett 35 Lacombe Lucien 35 idyllic countryside 35 Mexico Capadocia 35 Hollywoodization 35 autobiographical trilogy 35 Ealing comedies 35 mom Nancy Botwin 35 folkloric traditions 35 novelette 35 reductively 35 Brooklyn longshoreman 35 evocation 35 fantastical realm 35 intellectual pretensions 35 Joseph Sebarenzi 35 Palladian architecture 35 Anglophilia 35 Dada esque 35 Cusk 35 lingeringly 35 flaneur 35 incidental pleasures 35 Nuba mountains 35 misruled 35 Aubrey Maturin 35 idiosyncratic 35 paranoid thrillers 35 Altmanesque 35 bildungsroman 35 romanticist 35 Francois Papa Doc Duvalier 35 timeless fable 35 Fulbe 35 treacheries 35 dilettantism 35 Gojjam 35 allegories 35 bewitchment 35 poetic prose 35 literary allusions 35 tale 35 Borgesian 35 unbridled hedonism 35 Sufi poet Rumi 35 foppery 35 sentimentalised 35 blackface minstrelsy 35 Feydeau farce 35 urbane 35 Russianness 35 barrenness 35 Mueller Stahl 35 ghoulishness 35 painter Georges Seurat 35 intellectual ferment 35 Agatha Christie Belgian 35 titular protagonist 35 mawkishly 35 riotously entertaining 35 philosopher Emmanuel Levinas 35 lovelessness 35 hermitic 35 soberingly 35 Pol Pot Cambodia 35 spellbinder 35 infelicities 35 countercultures 35 enlightened despots 35 broodingly 35 absurdist 35 Swiftian 34 phantasmagoric 34 Berber minority 34 abstractionism 34 po mo 34 Wildean 34 dairyman Tevye 34 Abyssinia Ethiopia 34 postmodern 34 bleakly funny 34 Houphouet Boigny 34 disillusionments 34 erotics 34 silk cape 34 Laurence Sterne Tristram Shandy 34 kleptocratic 34 distinctly uncool 34 warfare pitting 34 metonym 34 Gukurahundi massacres 34 Louvish 34 sans culottes 34 Unaccustomed Earth 34 comeuppances 34 catharses 34 fictionalizes 34 farces 34 Congo Zaire 34 deracination 34 epic 34 sentimentalizes 34 Shan Sa 34 cosmopolitan 34 Viollet le Duc 34 entwinement 34 Conradian 34 unflinching depiction 34 beastliness 34 Nabokovian 34 Jeronimos monastery 34 archetypal 34 feelingly 34 unlovely 34 subversiveness 34 Larry McMurtry novel 34 thatched roof cottage 34 Terry Wolfmeyer 34 censoriousness 34 mythologise 34 Jacobean drama 34 unflinching candor 34 phantasms 34 unheroic 34 Benoît Poelvoorde 34 fatuousness 34 orientalism 34 Hieronymous Bosch 34 Italian neorealism 34 operatics 34 crass opportunism 34 prissiness 34 Lingala speaking 34 Dashiel Hammett 34 auteur cinema 34 Mobuto 34 misadventures 34 Atlas Shrugged Ayn Rand 34 enthrallment 34 harmonic sophistication 34 rhetorician 34 panegyrics 34 comically absurd 34 tragi 34 colonial overlords 34 Chaplin Tramp 34 self dramatizing 34 lame sitcommy cliches 34 roman à clef 34 tawdrier 34 earthily 34 La Boheme Baz Luhrmann 34 hard scrabble 34 Leigh Fermor 34 anomic 34 maudlin melodrama 34 humorlessness 34 Rebecca Nyandeng 34 internecine struggles 34 oafishness 34 Chabon novel 34 romantic fable 34 roistering 34 Wildean wit 34 melodramatics 34 sexual peccadilloes 34 epic sagas 34 repressive dictatorship 34 noir genre 34 Arturo Bandini 34 sentimentalities 34 Anton Mikael Persbrandt 34 Periodic Tales 34 bucolic splendor 34 Totalitarian regimes 34 Closely patterned 34 Swiftian satire 34 satirical wit 34 psychodramas 34 tragicomedies 34 Norse Mythology 34 novel Robinson Crusoe 34 villainously 34 humble origins 34 Fellini esque 34 renascence 34 folkways 34 philistinism 34 neo realist 34 intertwined fates 34 disquisition 34 noir thrillers 34 millenarianism 34 loopily 34 ganglands 34 fables 34 internecine wars 34 smug complacency 34 ruler Idi Amin 34 materialistic worldview 34 colonial subjugation 34 Gukurahundi genocide 34 Bieito 34 Georgette Heyer 34 kaleidoscopic portrait 34 et du Patrimoine 34 grotesqueness 34 mildly risqué 34 primitive accumulation 34 gripping tale 34 Witch hunts 34 Daniel Arap Moi 34 bourgeois 34 balkanised 34 irenic 34 avant garde composers 34 sagas 34 utter hopelessness 34 Thereby hangs 34 Tanzania Julius Nyerere 34 Charles Dickens Bleak 34 vanishings 34 tyranical 34 medievalism 34 Beckettian 34 Soukous 34 archetypally 34 drabness 34 bottomless depths 34 meta narrative 34 aristocracy 34 Enlightenment rationalism 34 Matobo 34 misty eyed nostalgia 34 dramatisations 34 Gem Saloon 34 Kalatozov 34 Ahidjo 34 philosophical ruminations 34 gabled houses 34 nineteen fifties 34 Rafael Sabatini 34 exploitation flicks 34 monumentalism 33 conversational prose 33 blackly funny 33 Suburbanization 33 metafiction 33 intricately plotted 33 revolutionary Simon Bolivar 33 cultural homogeneity 33 utopian fantasies 33 stony hearted 33 cross pollinations 33 Bamileke 33 WASP y 33 Maitatsine 33 postapocalyptic 33 Peasants Revolt 33 morally ambiguous characters 33 unreliable narrators 33 Dholuo 33 phantasmagoria 33 Republic Jean Bedel 33 thriving metropolis 33 Andrea Palladio 33 idyllic childhood 33 Jean Bedel Bokassa 33 dictator Jean Bedel 33 Suttree 33 Curtains jaunty musical 33 aestheticized 33 triumphal march 33 consummately 33 Congolese rumba 33 insurrectional 33 inwardness 33 transfigures 33 doyennes 33 charlatanry 33 alcoholic haze 33 Bennite 33 rotten boroughs 33 Portuguese colonizers 33 neo liberal ideology 33 Chinua Achebe 33 shady goings 33 intellectual vacuity 33 darkly comedic 33 ghastliness 33 echt 33 Toussaint L' ouverture 33 eccentricity 33 intertextual 33 muckraking journalism 33 endlessly quotable 33 novels 33 Sebhat Nega 33 urban homesteaders 33 side splittingly 33 acclaimed chronicler 33 suaveness 33 Galt Gulch 33 foibles 33 Rwanda Tutsi dominated 33 Allen Ginsberg poem 33 literal depiction 33 dystopic 33 Daggerhorn 33 weaves tapestry 33 Emperor Menelik II 33 Shakespearean comedies 33 CÃ'te d' Ivoire 33 familial strife 33 romanticized notions 33 dystopias 33 Pelagian 33 uppercrust 33 iron fisted dictator 33 solecism 33 abidingly 33 intellectualism 33 nefariousness 33 technocracy 33 Bantu languages 33 dystopian novels 33 avant gardism 33 febrile imagination 33 vicissitudes 33 WASPish 33 saturnalia 33 Nelly Bly 33 Waspy 33 fairytale 33 medieval monasteries 33 repressed desires 33 exegeses 33 unsentimentally 33 contradictory impulses 33 Grand Guignol 33 conflations 33 journalese 33 arcadia 33 depravities 33 farcical 33 barren expanses 33 aging hippie 33 idée fixe 33 self mythologising 33 curiously detached 33 suitably creepy 33 Nesbø 33 sexual dalliances 33 Orwellian dystopia 33 girl Ivana Baquero 33 human frailties 33 Cthulhu Mythos 33 bolshevism 33 romance Atonement 33 collectivist ideology 33 Pompeians 33 intersecting storylines 33 enormities 33 earthen bricks 33 Aleksandar Hemon 33 hardscrabble 33 Americo Liberians 33 privileged upbringing 33 rhymed verse 33 puzzlements 33 ignominies 33 imagistic 33 uproarious comedy 33 romantic misadventures 33 ex urbs 33 François Duvalier 33 unknowability 33 Lingala language 33 mightiest empire 33 Papa Doc Duvalier 33 heterodoxy 33 contemporaneity 33 becomes romantically entangled 33 charmingly naive 33 socio politico 33 mordant humor 33 milieux 33 ethno religious crises 33 semiautobiographical 33 unadulterated greed 33 Brodre 33 repressiveness 33 grotesque parody 33 hippie haven 33 documentarylike 33 ills besetting 33 rampant misogyny 33 actor Michael Stuhlbarg 33 researcher Dian Fossey 33 dualisms 33 protags 33 socio 33 Jane Austen adaptation 33 valorizes 33 humdrum existence 33 devious machinations 33 Slobodan Milosovic 33 Hamlet Othello 33 Horace Robedaux 33 subversively funny 33 upper middleclass 33 toytown 33 outlawry 33 Hitchcockian suspense 33 racially stratified 33 blithe disregard 33 poet Christina Rossetti 33 thematic preoccupations 33 ungraspable 33 Queneau 33 unspoken truths 33 Goldengrove 33 ripping yarn 33 thinly veiled autobiographical 33 Wallander novels 33 inextricable link 33 enchanting tale 33 spoofery 33 Italian giallo 33 civic boosterism 33 virtuousness 33 Sans Souci palace 33 situationist 33 engrossing tale 33 delusory 33 drama 33 stultifying 33 pan Africanism 33 bohemian 33 shtetls 33 evocative prose 33 staginess 33 freebooting 33 Emperor Haile Selassie 33 nowheresville 33 Katangan 33 squalour 33 banality 33 hyperreality 33 archaisms 33 aristos 33 macrocosmic 33 constructivists 33 weltanschauung 33 genocidal slaughter 33 milieus 33 Bakongo 32 élites 32 Berber tribes 32 filmmaker Xavier Beauvois 32 utterly beguiling 32 madcap adventures 32 seamy 32 smalltown 32 Tolstoy Anna Karenina 32 whimsicality 32 mustache twirling villains 32 Kitty Naomi Watts 32 didacticism 32 unbearable lightness 32 tony suburbs 32 Corelli Mandolin 32 dreadfulness 32 caudillos 32 Python esque 32 neverland 32 Llareggub 32 Jayavarman VII 32 nameless protagonist 32 Sovietism 32 O tempora o 32 Spaghetti westerns 32 Mobuto Sese Seko 32 Schubertian 32 cinema verité 32 grimy underbelly 32 palatial estates 32 Arthurian legends 32 ethnically homogenous 32 fictionalized memoir 32 disarmingly funny 32 Liberation Movement MLC 32 Randle McMurphy 32 roguery 32 Teodoro Obiang 32 vagina dentata myth 32 Salil da 32 Winter Bone Debra Granik 32 Gen. Nyamwasa 32 knockabout farce 32 follies 32 Gothic Revival architecture 32 jarring juxtapositions 32 hellishness