Literary Occasions: Essays - Rilegato

Naipaul, V. S.

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ISBN 10: 0375415173 ISBN 13: 9780375415173

Casa editrice: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 2003

Riassunto

A collection by a winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature includes eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity, discussing such topics as early forays into the worlds of books, the relationship between different literary forms and their cultures, and the author's reflections on his career. 25,000 first printing.

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Recensione:

"Each of the 11 pieces here offers delicious, spicy bits of Naipaul’s talent ... Literary Occasions is a rare book capable of entertaining and inspiring at the same time."
—New York Times New Service (printed in The Hamilton Spectator)

“Naipaul’s recollections are a salutary reminder of what [post-colonial literature] practitioners, of whom Naipaul is foremost, had to overcome.”
—The Gazette

“Literary Occasions is a rich...commentary on th[e] bridging of the parochial and the global, accomplished through prose that has for decades ranked among the best in English.”
—The Georgia Straight

Praise for V. S. Naipaul:
“The world’s writer, a master of language and perception.”
—The New York Times Book Review

“Naipaul is a master of English prose.”
—J. M. Coetzee

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 nonfiction, including Half a Life, A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and a collection of letters, Between Father and Son. In 2001 he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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• Editore: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0375415173
• ISBN 13: 9780375415173
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 202
• Redattore: Mishra Pankaj