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Literary Occasions: Essays (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781400031306)
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xEleven essays on reading, writing, and identity--which have been brought together for the first time--from the Nobel Prize-winning author. - "He brings to [nonfiction] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought.... I can no longer imagine the world without Naipaul's writing." --Vivian Gornick, Los Angeles Times Book Review
Here the subject is Naipaul's literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently cited as his forebear, and, in his celebrated Nobel Lecture, "Two Worlds," traces the full arc of his own career. Literary Occasions is an indispensable addition to the Naipaul oeuvre, penetrating, elegant, and affecting.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 1400031303
ISBN-13: 9781400031306
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2004
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.61d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/10/2004 pg. 26
Here the subject is Naipaul's literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently cited as his forebear, and, in his celebrated Nobel Lecture, "Two Worlds," traces the full arc of his own career. Literary Occasions is an indispensable addition to the Naipaul oeuvre, penetrating, elegant, and affecting.
Author: V. S. Naipaul
ISBN-10: 1400031303
ISBN-13: 9781400031306
Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
Language: English
Published: 08/10/2004
Pages: 224
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.61d
Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/10/2004 pg. 26
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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