V. S. Naipaul Libri

Nel 1995, Naipaul torna dopo circa vent’anni in quattro paesi sconvolti, in diversa misura, dal trionfo dell’Islam. In Indonesia, un’antica società pastorale ha lasciato il posto a una teocrazia governata dai grattacieli di Giakarta, dove i nuovi manager si genuflettono alla Mecca – ma senza perder d’occhio l’andamento, sullo schermo, dei corsi azionari. In Iran, l’ayatollah Khalkhalli, il Višinskij di Khomeini, è agli arresti domiciliari, mentre nella sua Qom ogni furore iconoclasta – che non sia la pratica interdetta del bridge, o l’acquisto clandestino di cd – appare spento. In Pakistan, l’oro saudita con cui il presidente Zia è andato al potere è servito essenzialmente a scatenare faide tribali che si credevano sepolte da secoli. Intanto, in Malesia, la gioventù islamica fa proseliti, vaticinando per la nazione un futuro da grande potenza del Sud-Est asiatico. Nel corso del viaggio, e degli incontri, il taccuino di Naipaul si riempie di storie e osservazioni secche, nitide, mai prevedibili, restituendoci una carta aggiornata e preoccupante di quel tifone ideologico – il fondamentalismo islamico – di cui l’Occidente sembra non voler conoscere le traiettorie, ma dal quale continua a temere di essere travolto. Fedeli a oltranza è stato pubblicato per la prima volta nel 1998.

Attratto da un richiamo fatale nel cuore dell'Africa, il giovane Salim, indiano di fede musulmana, lascia la costa orientale del continente per rilevare da un amico di famiglia un eccentrico bazar in riva a un fiume punteggiato dalle «isole scure» dei giacinti e circondato da un paesaggio primordiale di foreste, torrenti nascosti e impervi, canali infestati da zanzare e solcati da chiatte, buganvillee rigogliose, tramonti velati di nuvole lungo le rapide. Qui cercherà di contribuire, con pochi sodali, all'evoluzione di una società travolta da recenti tumulti. E in un primo momento la comunità dell'«ansa del fiume» – così come l'intero paese – sembrerà avviarsi a un promettente progresso. Ma quello slancio innovatore, fagocitato dal Grande Uomo (nel quale non è difficile riconoscere il dittatore Mobutu), si convertirà presto in un futurismo grottesco (il «radioso avvenire»); e, unito alla feroce rabbia accumulata nel periodo coloniale e a un equivoco ritorno alla ‘nazione autentica’, susciterà un sistema di controllo paranoico e una catena di cieche rappresaglie – consegnando Salim a un destino di apolide senza patria e senza vera identità. Sull'ansa del fiume non è solo uno dei libri più fortunati di Naipaul e il suo più esplicito omaggio all'amato Conrad: ma è quello in cui il suo sguardo si concreta, più che in ogni altro, in una prosa iperrealista, ipnotica e allucinata.

A cultural history describing how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a musical color line in the South, associating certain genres with particular racial and ethnic identities.

This is a further volume in the ongoing reissue of the backlist of V.S. Naipaul, who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001.

The history of Trinidad begins with a delusion: the belief that somewhere nearby on the South American mainland lay El Dorado, the mythical kingdom of gold. In this extraordinary and often gripping book, V. S. Naipaul–himself a native of Trinidad–shows how that delusion drew a small island into the vortex of world events, making it the object of Spanish and English colonial designs and a mecca for treasure-seekers, slave-traders, and revolutionaries. Amid massacres and poisonings, plunder and multinational intrigue, two themes emerge: the grinding down of the Aborigines during the long rivalries of the El Dorado quest and, two hundred years later, the man-made horror of slavery. An accumulation of casual, awful detail takes us as close as we can get to day-to-day life in the slave colony, where, in spite of various titles of nobility, only an opportunistic, near-lawless community exists, always fearful of slave suicide or poison, of African sorcery and revolt. Naipaul tells this labyrinthine story with assurance, withering irony, and lively sympathy. The result is historical writing at its highest level.

A magnet to the poets, philosophers, teachers, troubadours and misfits who people the town of Port of Spain, Miguel Street is a place where tales of glory and debauchery vie with declarations of love and anger, where neighbourhood dramas are scrutinized and wisdom doled out to one and all.

In his long-awaited, vastly innovative new novel, Naipaul, "one of literature's great travelers" (Los Angles Times), spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. "Dickensian . . . a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work."--New York Times.

Offers an account of the author's literary beginnings and growth and a narrative of a journey into the tribal and modern life of the Ivory Coast.

Owning a small portion of the Trinidad earth and a respectable house of his own is the dream that sustains Mohun Biswas through a life of frustration and despair after he marries into the domineering Tulsi family

Naipaul’s controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world, hailed by The New Republic as “the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time.”

Mr Biswas is a man who is not naturally rebellious, but in whom rebellion is inspired by the forces of ritual, myth and custom. Though he has married into the family, Mr Biswas remains an outsider and refuses to follow the family in their habitual devotions.

The early masterpiece of V. S. Naipaul’s brilliant career, A House for Mr. Biswas is an unforgettable story inspired by Naipaul's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous–and endless–struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark comedy of manners, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.

A collection of pieces of reportage and reflections on societies which are still suffering from the profound deprivations of colonialism. Amongst the topics covered are Michael X in Trinidad, Peronism in Argentina, and the cult of Kingship in Mobuto's Zaire.

Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul’s boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; Naipaul’s observations on Conrad, his literary forebear; the moving preface he wrote to the only book his father ever published; and his reflections on his career, ending with his celebrated Nobel lecture ‘Two Worlds’. A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul’s previous volume of highly-acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.

In this book, an old, comically timid and absent-minded man, Surujpat Harbans, runs for office, aided by superstition, bribes, and an aggressive compaign.

A thoughtful and beautifully crafted epilogue to the history of slavery - essential reading for anyone interested in American history.

In this work of autobiographical travel writing in India, the author desribes his encounter with a force in his life which shocked him into an awareness of a need for self-examination and self-explanation. V.S. Naipul has also written 13 works of fiction and won the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature.

Perhaps Naipaul's most autobiographical work, this is the story of a writer's singular journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.

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

V.S. Naipaul s fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on t

Presents an account of the author's journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad. This work provides a study of societies - British Guyana, Surinam, Martinique and Jamaica - examining their common heritage of colonialism and slavery.

Winner of the Booker Prize in 1971 and nominated for the Golden Man Booker Prize in 2018.

An expatriate English couple and a West Indian would-be revolutionary yield to infidelity, sexual abuse, murder, and irrevocable mental and moral decay on a socially fragile, post-colonial Caribbean island. A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.

The Nobel Prize winner's first novel traces the unlikely career of Ganesh Ramsumair, a failed schoolteacher and impecunious village masseur who in time becomes a revered mystic and the most beloved politician in 1940s Trinidad.

A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.

Like all of V. S. Naipaul's 'travel' books, encompasses amuch larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization

Written to provide engineers and scientists with a coherent guide to how to protect their inventions and creations, this text provides readers with a solid foundation to help them know when and why it is necessary to seek advice before valuable rights are lost or the rights of others are infringed. Coverage includes: employment contracts, as well as the ability of engineers to take confidential and secret knowledge to a new job; shop rights; and information to help entrepreneurs establish a non-conflicting enterprise when leaving their prior employment.

Presenting a moving tale of a man searching for his life and fearing he has wasted it, this novel is also a testing study of the conflicts between the rich and the poor, and the struggles within each.

A tender, funny novel written with the verve of Dickens and the passion of Chekhov, set during World War II in a derelict neighborhood in Trinidad’s capital and narrated by an unnamed boy—from the Nobel Prize-winning author.“One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.” — Newsday“A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this corner of Trinidad’s capital is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. There’s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. This tender, funny early novel is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page.

Was bedeutet es, in einer ehemaligen Kolonie zu leben?§Und wie lebt es sich als Kind von Einwanderern fernab der Heimat?§Diese Fragen bewegen V.S.Naipaul seit jeher, sie bestimmen auch sein Interesse für den afrikanischen Kontinent.

Quo vadis, Amerika? Dem in Trinidad aufgewachsenen V. S. Naipaul galt Amerika schon früh als „Land der Finsternis“. In diesem Buch beschreibt der Nobelpreisträger es als einen Kontinent voller Widersprüche, der bis heute sein koloniales Erbe nicht losgeworden ist.

Mrs. Jansen, eine Frau mittleren Alters mit unbekannter Vergangenheit, lebt kurz in Paris. Ihr Leben ist geprägt von Alkoholabhängigkeit und dem Verlust ihres Sohnes. Der Roman thematisiert das innere und äußere Exil sowie das Gefühl der Wurzel- und Heimatlosigkeit, zentrale Motive in Jean Rhys' Werken.

Die literarische Autobiographie des Nobelpreisträgers Schon im Alter von elf Jahren wollte V.S. Naipaul Schriftsteller werden. Welche Bücher haben ihn in seinem Wunsch bestärkt? Wie fand er seine Themen? Welchen Traditionen fühlt er sich verpflichtet? Diesen Fragen geht Naipaul in seinen Essays nach, die durch seine Rede zur Nobelpreisverleihung vollendet werden.

Im Jahre 1950, kurz vor seinem achtzehnten Geburtstag, kehrt V. S. Naipaul seiner Heimat Trinidad zum ersten Mal den Rücken. Sein Ziel ist England, denn er hat ein Stipendium der Universität Oxford bekommen. 1953 stirbt Naipauls Vater, ein Journalist des 'Guardian' auf Trinidad, im Alter von 47 Jahren an einem Herzinfarkt. In den vorausgegangenen drei Jahren haben Vater und Sohn eine bewegende Korrespondenz geführt, die die selten innige und tolerante Beziehung der beiden spiegelt. Denn Naipauls Vater hatte einen Traum: Sein Sohn sollte Schriftsteller werden, und er konnte sein Glück kaum fassen, als dieser diese Berufung für sich entdeckte und zu schreiben begann.

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people--Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious compound wife -- are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin's Uganda. And the farther Naipaul's protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best.

Dva klíčové prvky díla světoznámého britského prozaika karibského původu – autobiograficky pojatý příběh uměleckého zrání a cesty za vlastním já a nezjednodušený obraz postkoloniální situace třetího světa – se v románové sekvenci z poloviny 90. let, řadící se k vrcholným autorovým prózám, projevují se zvlášť výraznou naléhavostí. V časově i tematicky široce pojatém cyklu devíti kapitol sjednoceném rodným karibským regionem se Naipaulovi podařilo skloubit tragické historické osudy evropských objevitelů a dobyvatelů, epizody z poválečného politického vývoje i osobně laděný příběh hledání vlastních kořenů v neobyčejně originální a přesvědčivý celek, potvrzující autorovu mistrovskou schopnost reflexe historického vývoje i vlastního osudu.

Verslag van een reis door Indonesië, Iran, Maleisië en Pakistan, waarbij de aandacht van de schrijver vooral uitgaat naar de invloed van de Islam op deze landen.

Der Familien- und Entwicklungsroman spielt in Trinidad und erzählt die Geschichte von Mr. Biswas, einem Außenseiter, der mit Unglückszeichen geboren wird. Als Sohn eines armen Landarbeiters kämpft er gegen die Herausforderungen seiner Herkunft und den Konflikt mit dem Familienklan seiner Frau.

Románový příběh o působení nevlídných sociálních a politických poměrů na vnitřní svět člověka.

Autobiografische roman van de Westindische schrijver waarin Engeland centraal staat.

Een Indiase jongeman trekt de halve wereld rond in een poging inhoud en betekenis aan zijn leven te geven.

Verslag van de reis die de in Trinidad geboren schrijver van Indiase afkomst in 1987 door de zuidelijke staten van Amerika maakte.

Quinze ans après son premier voyage dans quatre pays musulmans non arabes - l'Indonésie, l'Iran, le Pakistan et la Malaisie -, V S. Naipaul revient sur ses pas. L'auteur du Crépuscule de l'Islam part à la recherche des hommes qu'il a connus en 1979, résistants de l'ombre ou défenseurs enthousiastes des gigantesques bouleversements que connaissait alors une partie du monde musulman. Naipaul rapporte les récits de ces vies singulières en vingt ans converties à la religion du prophète. D'Islamabad à Kuala Lumpur, des campagnes iraniennes aux mégalopoles d'Indonésie, il recueille les paroles désenchantées d'hommes résignés à endurer les aberrations des régimes en place. L'écrivain, qui sait aussi se faire sociologue ou historien, dresse le portrait de cette partie de l'humanité qui a cédé aux diktats d'une conception obscurantiste de la foi.

物語の核心に迫る、“グラン=パルス”終端まで攻略。150体以上の敵兵、シ骸、モンスターのパラメータ公開。LV.8までのクリスタリウムデータでキャラの成長も万全。巻頭ポスター&シートで全オプティマ・召喚獣を一挙紹介。