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Literary Occasions: Essays

By Pankaj , Naipaul , Vidiadhar Surajprasad;Mishra

Book information

Publisher
Vintage Books
Year
2004
ISBN
9780307557469, 9781400031306, 0307557464
Language
english
Format
MOBI
Filesize
298 kB (305537 bytes)
Edition
1st Vintage books ed
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
-- 1932-2018;LITERARY COLLECTIONS -- Essays;BIOGRABIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Literary;LITERARY COLLEV. S. -- (Vidiadhar Surajprasad)

Description

Nobel laureate V.S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with received truths, and his masterfully condensed prose to these eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity'which have been brought together for the first time. Here the subject is Naipaul's literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently cited as his forebear, and, in his celebrated Nobel Lecture, "Two Worlds," traces the full arc of his own career. Literary Occasions is an indispensable addition to the Naipaul oeuvre, penetrating, elegant, and affecting. From the Trade Paperback edition.

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