Yambo Ouologuem

Praise for Bound to Violence

Ouologuem delineates white savagery as precisely as he shows intrablack conflicts... His novel is something like a skyscraper. It has multi-levels, a variety of actions, characters, and scenes... A bone-chilling bla ...

New York Times

Conveys, through Ralph Manheim's translation, a startling energy of language.... The intelligence expressed by the book seems all too withering, all too Gallic

John Updike, The New Yorker