India: A Wounded Civilization - Brossura

Naipaul, V. S.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0330487604 ISBN 13: 9780330487603

Casa editrice: Picador, 2002

Riassunto

In 1964 V.S. Naipaul published An Area of Darkness, his semi-autobiographical account of a year in India. Two visits later, prompted by the Emergency of 1975, he came to write India: A Wounded Civilization, in which he casts a more analytical eye over Indian attitudes. In this work, he recapitulates and further investigates the feelings that the vast, mysterious and agonised continent has previously aroused in him. What he sees and what he hears - evoked so superbly and vividly in this book - only reinforce in him his conviction that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration. 'A devastating work' The Times 'Brilliant' Spectator

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Descrizione del libro:

A penetrating survey of this tormented continent by one of the literary heavyweights of our age

L'autore:

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He went to England on a scholarship in 1950. After four years at University College, Oxford, he began to write, and since then has followed no other profession. He has published more than twenty books of fiction and non-fiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr Biswas, A Bend in the River and most recently The Masque of Africa, and a collection of correspondence, Letters Between A Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Editore: Picador
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0330487604
• ISBN 13: 9780330487603
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 176