In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Marta Figlerowicz discuss the first chapter of D.O. Fagunwa’s novel, Forest of a Thousand Daemons, “The Author Meets Akara-Ogun.” The novel was originally published in Yoruba in 1938, and it was translated by Wole Soyinka in 1982. Marta Figlerowicz is the Professor of Comparative Literature and Director of Graduate Studies at Yale University. Figlerowicz’s scholarly interests include 20th and 21st century American, Brazilian, British French, Polish, and West African literature, as well as the novel, new media, translation studies and narrative theory. Figlerowicz has recently become co-editor of the journal Narrative, along with the guest on the July 2025 podcast episode, Kent Puckett. Figlerowicz’s books include Flat Protagonists: A Theory of Novel Character, Spaces of Feeling: Affects and Awareness in Modernist Literature, and a translation of the work of Polish critical theorist Maria Janion, entitled The Bad Child: A Maria Janion Reader. Figlerowicz is currently working on a project entitled, It Must Be Possible: Modernity and Trans-Cultural Knowledge. In 2024, Figlerowicz received a Guggenheim Fellowship to support her work on that project.