The Writer and the World: Essays - Brossura

Naipaul, V. S.; Mishra, Pankaj

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0375407391 ISBN 13: 9780375407390

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2002

Riassunto

Spanning some forty years of writing, a collection of essays by Nobel laureate offers many of his finest shorter pieces of reflection and journalism as he writes about the Muslim invasions of India, Mobuto's mad reign in Zaire, the New York mayoral elections, and other fascinating aspects of people, cultures, and places around the world. 25,000 first printing.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

“Naipaul is Conrad’s heir as the annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings. His authority as a narrator is grounded in his memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished.” -- The Nobel Prize Citation

“His memoirs and travel books are a testament to his ruthless truth-telling about the collision of cultures.” -- The Globe and Mail
From the Trade Paperback edition.

L'autore:

V. S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad in 1932. He has published more than 20 books of fiction and nonfiction, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, The Enigma of Arrival and An Area of Darkness. He lives in Wiltshire, England. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0375407391
• ISBN 13: 9780375407390
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 524
• Redattore: Mishra Pankaj