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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.
Acquisto del libro
Literary occasions : essays, V. S. Naipaul, Pankaj Mishara
- Lingua
- Pubblicato
- 2004
- Rilegatura
- (In brossura)
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- Lingua
- Inglese
- Autori
- V. S. Naipaul, Pankaj Mishara
- Editore
- Picador
- Pubblicato
- 2004
- Formato
- In brossura
- Pagine
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0330420232
- ISBN13
- 9780330420235
- Serie
- Tag
- Saggistica, Storie vere, Biografie, Narrativa contemporanea, Giornalismo d’opinione & Saggi, Scrittura, Critica
- Valutazione
- 3,7 su 5
- Descrizione
- 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.