Bound to Violence - Yambo Ouologuem sculpture An ageing eunuch

An ageing eunuch

What if the things we keep hidden say more about us than those we put on display

and mutuality

generous in approach

Bound to Violence - Yambo Ouologuem sculpture An ageing eunuchA mock epic of explosive power, Bound to Violence races through the history of the imaginary African kingdom of Nakem, from the Middle Ages to the twentieth century. Recounting the bloody adventures of successive inglorious dynasties, the arrival of white exploiters and the fates of ordinary, endlessly persecuted citizens most notably the tragicomic, Paris educated hero Raymond Spartacus Kassoumi this iconoclastic, outrageous 1968 novel takes a wry,