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A Writers People (Paperback)
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PAN
MACMILLAN INDIA
| Author:
V
S NAIPAUL
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
PAN
MACMILLAN INDIA
Author:
V
S NAIPAUL
Language:
English
Format:
Paperback
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Part
meditation, part remembrance, A Writer’s People by V. S. Naipaul is a
privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of
one of our greatest writers. For the ‘serious traveller’, one who is fully
engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author’s purpose,
then, ‘is not literary criticism or biography’, but only to set out the
writing and ways of seeing to which he was exposed. So here is colonial
Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul’s own father); the culture of
school (Flaubert and the classical world); England, where with the help of
friends the writer seeks to make his way; and, inevitably for a colonial
Indian, there is India, to be approached through the residue of Indian
culture and the scattered memories of nineteenth-century immigrants, leading
to a special understanding of Mahatma Gandhi.
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Part
meditation, part remembrance, A Writer’s People by V. S. Naipaul is a
privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of
one of our greatest writers. For the ‘serious traveller’, one who is fully
engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author’s purpose,
then, ‘is not literary criticism or biography’, but only to set out the
writing and ways of seeing to which he was exposed. So here is colonial
Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul’s own father); the culture of
school (Flaubert and the classical world); England, where with the help of
friends the writer seeks to make his way; and, inevitably for a colonial
Indian, there is India, to be approached through the residue of Indian
culture and the scattered memories of nineteenth-century immigrants, leading
to a special understanding of Mahatma Gandhi.
About Author
V.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 lived with his wife Nadira and cat Augustus in Wiltshire, and died
in 2018.
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