Dream on Monkey Mountain and Other Plays

by Derek Walcott

Book Overview

On a Caribbean island, the morning after a full moon, Felix Hobain tears through the market in a drunken rage. Taken away to sober up in jail, all that night he is gripped by hallucinations: the impoverished hermit believes he has become a healer, walking from village to village, tending to the sick, waiting for a sign from God. In this dream, his one companion, Moustique, wants to exploit his power. Moustique decides to impersonate a prophet himself,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374508607
• ISBN13: 9780374508609
• Release Date: January 1971
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.83 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.5" x 8.2"

Customer Reviews

nice surprise

I had to order this book for a class and was not really looking forward to reading it, however, I must say the plays are EXCELLENT. There is a reason Walcott has been so well received among the literary world. These plays are interesting and very imaginative, plus Walcott always gives your vocabulary a good work out!

Walcott is an interesting writer

This was required for a theatre class. To get the full gist of this play you need to research African roots, myths, and superstitions. I Enjoyed it.

Nice play

I had to read it a few times to understand what was really going on. Because it is written in a Creole dialect it was some what hard to understand, but if you re-read where you are confused you can easily figure it out. It's a very nice story about a poor, old, sad black man, and his yearning for home.

Genius!

Walcott is a genius. These early works are among the first indications that he was to be a the literary master.

Very interesting

I did this book for my literature class and I thought it was vey interesting. It reminded me somewhat of Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man". This book is vey interesting and is written by a man who is basically a minority where he is from due to his religion and up bringing. The book's main character is Makak who is ashamed of his identity as a black man and idealizes the moon because it is white. Eventually he learns to accept himself as he is.