Literary Occasions
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 identityawhich have been brought together for the first time. Here the subject is Naipaulas 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, aTwo Worlds, a 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.Essays V.S. Naipaul ... I was just old enough to have some idea of the Indian epics, the Ramayana in particular. ... My grandmothera#39;s house was full of religion; there were many ceremonies and readings, some of which went on for days. But no one explained or translated for us who could no longer follow the language.
| Title | : | Literary Occasions |
| Author | : | V.S. Naipaul |
| Publisher | : | Vintage - 2010-02-10 |
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