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THE WRITER AND THE WORLD
Publisher:
PAN
MACMILAN
| Author:
V
S Naipaul
| Language:
English
| Format:
Paperback
Publisher:
PAN
MACMILAN
Author:
V
S Naipaul
Language:
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Concentrating
mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful
collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this
writer’s extraordinary world.
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body
of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest
pieces of reflection and reportage – many of which have been unavailable for
some time – are collected in one volume.
With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the
past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples
through the prism of his experience. Whether writing about Indian mutinies
and despair, Mobutu’s mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections,
he demonstrates time and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the
ways in which the world works.
Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The Writer and the World attests
powerfully not only to Naipaul’s status as the great English prose stylist of
our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding.
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Concentrating
mainly on India, the Americas, Africa and the Diaspora, this wonderful
collection of essays is a clear-eyed and magnificent introduction to this
writer’s extraordinary world.
During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body
of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest
pieces of reflection and reportage – many of which have been unavailable for
some time – are collected in one volume.
With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the
past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples
through the prism of his experience. Whether writing about Indian mutinies
and despair, Mobutu’s mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections,
he demonstrates time and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the
ways in which the world works.
Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The Writer and the World attests
powerfully not only to Naipaul’s status as the great English prose stylist of
our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding.
About Author
V.S.
Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in
1950. After four years at Oxford he began to write and since then he has
followed no other profession. He is the author of more than twenty books of
fiction and nonfiction and the recipient of numerous honors, including the
Nobel Prize in 2001, the Booker Prize in 1971 and a knighthood for services
to literature in 1990. He lives in Wiltshire, England.
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