A Break From Reality

Although I do not believe everything that Soyinka is writing, I am relieved to be reading a childhood memoir. Reading the stories and memories make me remember what it was like to be a child, and how distorted things could be when you're younger. Wole is trapped in a mixed world. He is clearly well educated beyond his years, which take away from some of his experiences because he does have more elaborate thoughts, but he is still naive enough to not fully understand what the entirety of a situation means.

Because Wole is living in a mixed world, of higher education and childlike tendencies, it adds a twist to the story line and the individual stories. While I find some of the stories fabricated and hard to wrap my head around, I am enjoying the childhood memories from an non-tainted point of view, like we got in Nervous Conditions.