Dambudzo Marechera on outsiderism

I do not like this century. I do not like any other century, past or future. I do not like to live under the backside of a medieval god or a nuclear bomb, which amounts to the same thing. I am no mystic, yet no materialist either. I believe in nature but refuse to live with it in the same room.

SOURCE: Marechera, Dambudzo. “The African Writer’s Experience of European Literature,” in Dambudzo Marechera: A Source Book on his Life and Work [1992], by Flora Veit-Wild (Trenton, NJ; Asmara, Eritrea: Africa World Press, Inc., 2004), [pp. 361-368], p. 364.

“... text of a lecture delivered by Marechera in Harare on 15 October 1986. It was first published in Zambezia: The Journal of the University of Zimbabwe, 14, 2 (1987), 99-105 ...”

See also:

Mushakavanh,Tinashe. “A Brotherhood of Misfits: The Literary Anarchism of Dambudzo Marechera & Percy Bysshe Shelley,” in Reading Marechera, edited by Grant Hamilton (Woodbridge, Suffolk; Rochester, NY: James Currey, 2013), pp. 11-24.

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