Ti Jean and His Brothers

Ti Jean and His Brothers

Ti Jean and His Brothers

Ti Jean and His Brothers

Overview

The author retells the story of three brothers who are challenged by the devil who is striving to grow human so he can enjoy the evil he's wrought firsthand. Ti Jean the swift and elegant hero who is but a boy accepts the challenge. It is an Aeschylus-like adventure turned into a charming, poetic and romantic fable with a deep undertone. Ti Jean, like all heroes, is a fool. He passes through the tangled opinions of life, loosening knowledge and bearing it on his shoulders half Ulysses, half Pentheus, with a final judgement belonging to the frogs and fireflies.

The playwright was a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Published in Dream on Monkey Mountain.

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Details

  • Genre: Fables/Folktales

Authors

Derek Walcott

Derek Walcott was born in 1930 in the town of Castries in Saint Lucia, one of the Windward Islands in the Lesser Antilles. The experience of growing up on the isolated volcanic island, an ex-British colony, has had a strong influence on Walcott’s life and work. Both his grand ...

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