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A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780375707292)
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xThe Nobel Prize-winning author delivers an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation. "Bracing, surprising.... A meditation on art and life." --The New York Review of Books
V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process that has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on--Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert, and his father, among them--and his first encounters with literary culture. He illuminates the ways in which the writings of Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors themselves and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his early years in Trinidad; the empty spaces in his family history; his ever-evolving reactions to the more complicated India he would encounter for the first time at age thirty.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 0375707298
ISBN-13: 9780375707292
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2009
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/22/2009 pg. 22
V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process that has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on--Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert, and his father, among them--and his first encounters with literary culture. He illuminates the ways in which the writings of Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors themselves and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his early years in Trinidad; the empty spaces in his family history; his ever-evolving reactions to the more complicated India he would encounter for the first time at age thirty.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 0375707298
ISBN-13: 9780375707292
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 05/05/2009
Pages: 208
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 7.90h x 5.10w x 0.80d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 11/22/2009 pg. 22
By V. S. Naipaul
xV.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession. His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now. In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.
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