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…Most amazing about this novel is that, with its deathless characters who slip easily through the centuries and who deal in the extra‐natural and supernatural, its bone‐chilling black satire, it is like the works of Ishmael Reed and William Melvin Kelley’s last novel Dunfords Travels Everywheres.” —New York Times