The James Joyce line beginning "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience…
The James Joyce line beginning "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience…" is the epigraph of this man's second novel, The Landscapes Within. His first novel concerns the virtue of the teenager Jeffia and the fall of his corrupt father Jonan. Another work tells the story of an abiku, a spirit child who is destined to be born and die in an endless cycle to plague his mother, that decides to end the cycle in favor of life but is displaced from his family by a riot, causing him to wander along the title street. For 10 points-- name this Nigerian author of The Famished Road.
The James Joyce line beginning "Welcome, O life! I go to encounter for the millionth time the reality of experience…
Ben {Okri}