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An astonishingly candid book from the Nobel Laureate about what has shaped his interpretation of literature and the world.
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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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 17 juni 2011
Aantal pagina's: 208
Illustraties: Nee
Hoofdauteur: V.S. Naipaul
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador
Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 129 mm
Product hoogte: 17 mm
Product lengte: 196 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 132 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 197 mm
Verpakking lengte: 19 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 181 g
EAN: 9780330522984