2003, ISBN: 0307396932

In his first book of non-fiction since 2003, V.S. Naipaul gives us an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellect… Mehr…

In his first book of non-fiction since 2003, V.S. Naipaul gives us an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation.Born in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveller, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilisation to another." In A Writer’s People, he discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on, Derek Walcott, Flaubert and his own father among them; how Anthony Powell and Francis Wyndham influenced his first encounters with literary culture; what we have retained–and forgotten–of the world portrayed in Caesar’s The Gallic War and Virgil’s Aeneid; how the writings of Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his years in Trinidad; the gaps in his family history; the "private India" kept alive through story, ritual, religion and culture; his ever-evolving reaction to the more complicated and demanding true India he would encounter for the first time when he was thirty.Part meditation, part remembrance, as elegant as it is revelatory, A Writer’s People allows us privileged insight–full of incident, humour and feeling–into the mind of one of our greatest writers."He brings to non-fiction an extraordinary capacity for making arts and literature,authors,biographical,biographies,biographies and history,biography and history,history and criticism,literary criticism,literary criticism and collections,literature and fiction Biographies, Knopf Canada<

2008, ISBN: 0307396932

[EAN: 9780307396938], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf Canada], Good condition, wear from reading and use. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact and has some creases. The spin… Mehr…

[EAN: 9780307396938], Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Knopf Canada], Good condition, wear from reading and use. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact and has some creases. The spine has signs of wear and creases. This copy may include From the library of labels, stickers or stamps and be an ex-library copy.<

ISBN: 9780307396938

Knopf Canada. Used - Good. Former Library book. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside., Knopf Canada