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V. S. Naipaul: A Way in the World V. S. Naipaul: A Way in the World V. S. Naipaul: A Way in the World V. S. Naipaul: A Way in the World

Billed ​by the publisher as Naipaul's first novel since The Enigma of Arrival in 1987, this can really be regarded as fiction only by the most extremely elastic definition. It is in fact a series of extended essays, meditations and dramatized historical reconstructions that originally carried the perhaps more fitting subtitle „A Sequence.” Naipaul ruminates, with all his acute intelligence, on how history shapes personality--and vice versa. The book begins and ends with unexpectedly personal autobiographical sketches of Naipaul: as a boy in Trinidad; as a bright young clerk with a scholarship and a future; as a fledgling writer struggling in London; and, finally, in a later period, in an unnamed East African country where he reencounters a character from his youth. These flank two much longer pieces, which are both poignant and superbly realized portraits of elderly figures whose once-powerful lives were wrecked, more than 200 years apart, by their efforts to exploit, economically… (tovább)

Eredeti megjelenés éve: 1994

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Vintage, London, 2011
400 oldal · ISBN: 9780307401465
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Vintage, London, 1995
400 oldal · ISBN: 9780679761662
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Knopf, New York, 1994
380 oldal · ISBN: 9780394564784

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