THE FAMISHED ROAD by Ben Okri (Vintage Books, 1991)
In the foreword to the 25th anniversary edition of this mind-expanding Booker-prize winning novel, Ben Okri explains his creative purpose: “All things to do with spirit compel art beyond the rim of possibilities. The visible must be used to invoke the invisible. This compels our art to go beyond itself and find a new language for impossibility.”
In interviews, Okri speaks of telling secret stories that help adjust our “mental land” and shift the consciousness of readers in subtle ways. In the story itself, the Nigerian-born author writes: “When you can see everything from an unimaginable point of view, you might begin to understand”. Continue reading
