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V.S. Naipaul and the West Indies

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Author : Dolly Zulakha Hassan
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book V.S. Naipaul and the West Indies written by Dolly Zulakha Hassan and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1989 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the fiction and non-fiction in which Trinidadian-born V.S. Naipaul has treated West Indian subject matter. Providing an insight into his troubled East Indian oblique/West Indian background and self-imposed exile in London, this study examines each of Naipaul's Caribbean works and presents massive coverage - from scholarly articles to informal interviews - of his generally hostile reception in the region. The appendix, which treats Naipaul's books on his ancestral land, India, further illuminates the controversy associated with this writer and his roots.

The Middle Passage

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Picador USA
ISBN 13 : 9780330343961
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (439 download)

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Download or read book The Middle Passage written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Picador USA. This book was released on 1962 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naipul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, Trinidad. He offers a record of his impressions there and elsewhere in the West Indies and South America, and examines their common heritage of colonialism and slavery.

Created in the West Indies

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Author : Jennifer Rahim
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9789766374129
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (741 download)

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Download or read book Created in the West Indies written by Jennifer Rahim and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Created in the West Indies: Caribbean Perspectives on V.S. Naipaul updates and furthers the debates on the life and work of an internationally acclaimed writer, Nobel laureate and native son of Trinidad and Tobago. The book draws together the proceedings of a series of outstanding public lectures and an academic symposium that featured a distinguished cadre of Caribbean scholars who, during 2007, participated in a year-long schedule of activities initiated by the University of the West Indies, St Augustine campus, to honour the life and work of this highly accomplished enigma of Caribbean letters. The essays in this collection are organised into three sections that represent a compression of the multifaceted range of V.S. Naipaul s creative concerns, thematic explorations, even obsessions, and philosophical persuasions. The singular power of these contributions is their ability to push at the borders of Naipaul scholarship, cutting new pathways for considering this most intriguing creative mind and offering fresh perspectives on the now familiar themes of postcolonial identity and nationalism, the fiction of history and history of fiction, home and belonging in a world characterised by flux, movement and cultural contact. Controversy has always companioned Naipaul s career. Not surprisingly, some of the contributions are unrelentingly honest in their expose of Naipaul for his trademark impatience with the very societies that created his unique sensibility and his propensity for self-contradiction. "

Miguel Street

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307370615
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Miguel Street written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To the residents of Miguel Street, a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital, their neighbourhood 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;” Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion; Big Foot, the dreaded bully with glass tear ducts; and the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. Their lives (and the legends their neighbours construct around them) are rendered by V. S. Naipaul with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion in this tender, funny novel.

V. S. Naipaul

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Author : Robert D. Hamner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book V. S. Naipaul written by Robert D. Hamner and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The World Is What It Is

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Author : Patrick French
Publisher : Viking Canada
ISBN 13 : 9780670045297
Total Pages : 480 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (452 download)

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Download or read book The World Is What It Is written by Patrick French and published by Viking Canada. This book was released on 2008-08-12 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beginning with a richly detailed portrait of Naipaul's childhood in Trinidad, Patrick French gives us the boy born to an Indian family who wins a scholarship to Oxford at the age of 17. London in the 1950s offers his first literary success, but homesickness almost defeats Vidia, his narrow escape aided by Patricia Hale, an English woman who will stand by him for 4 decades, even as he embarks on a 24-year love affair which will feed his dizzying creativity. Informed by exclusive access to the subject's private papers and personal recollections, French's revelatory biography does full justice to an enigmatic genius.

Guerrillas

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307789314
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book Guerrillas written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-04-13 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a novel of exile, displacement, and the agonizing cruelty and pain of colonialism, both for those who rule and those who are their victims. “A brilliant novel in every way.… [It] shimmers with artistic certainty.” —The New York Times Book Review Set on a troubled Carribbean island, where “everybody wants to fight his own little war,” where “everyone is a guerrilla,” the novel centers on an Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island – subdued now, almost withdrawn – to work and to help. Soon his English mistress arrives: casually nihilistic, bored, quickly enticed – excited – by fantasies of native power and sexuality, and blindly unaware of any possible consequences of her acts. At once Roche and Jane are drawn into fatal connection with a young guerrilla leader named Jimmy Ahmed, a man driven by his own raging fantasies of power, of perverse sensuality, and of the England he half remembers, half sentimentalizes. Against the larger anguish of the world they inhabit, these three act out a drama of death, hideous sexual violence, and political and spiritual impotence that profoundly reflects the ravages history can make on human lives.

A Writer's People

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307269485
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book A Writer's People written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into the sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation. “Bracing, surprising.... A meditation on art and life.” —The New York Review of Books V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of "fitting one civilization to another." In A Writer's People, he takes us into this process that has shaped both his writing and his life. Naipaul discusses the writers to whom he was exposed early on—Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert, and his father, among them—and his first encounters with literary culture. He illuminates the ways in which the writings of Gandhi, Nehru, and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors themselves and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his early years in Trinidad; the empty spaces in his family history; his ever-evolving reactions to the more complicated India he would encounter for the first time at age thirty.

The Middle Passage

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307370542
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Middle Passage written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naipaul’s first work of travel writing is a deft and remarkably prescient account of his journey in 1960 from London to his birthplace, the Caribbean island of Trinidad.

The Masque of Africa

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Knopf Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307399974
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Masque of Africa written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Knopf Canada. This book was released on 2010-10-19 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa. The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief. Like all of Naipaul's great works of non-fiction, The Masque of Africa is superficially a book of travels — full of people, stories and landscapes he visits — but it also encompasses a larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (whether in indigenous animisms, faiths imposed by other cultures, or even the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization.

The Loss of El Dorado

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307789330
Total Pages : 425 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (77 download)

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Download or read book The Loss of El Dorado written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-16 with total page 425 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this masterpiece about Trinidad, the Nobel Prize-winning author has “given us a lesson in history [and] shown us how it is best written” (The New York Times). 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 Turn in the South

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 030737050X
Total Pages : 429 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book A Turn in the South written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 429 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: V. S. Naipaul’s first book about the United States is a revealing, disturbing, elegiac book about the hidden life and culture of the American South — from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill.

The Middle Passage

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Author : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Middle Passage written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 1981 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Half a Life

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307370593
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Half a Life written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer—strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her—carried along, really—to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man’s determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, “Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.” A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination.

V. S. Naipaul of Trinidad

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Author : Nivedita Misra
Publisher : Anthem Press
ISBN 13 : 1839989203
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book V. S. Naipaul of Trinidad written by Nivedita Misra and published by Anthem Press. This book was released on 2024-01-09 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book is about V. S. Naipaul who was born in Trinidad in 1932. At the age of 18, Naipaul left Trinidad on a scholarship to study literature at Oxford. He never returned to live in Trinidad. His first book was published in 1956, and by the time Trinidad achieved political independence in 1962, he had published four books and was firmly established as a writer in England. By the time Trinidad became a republic in 1976, Naipaul had written 13 books and had travelled through much of the postcolonial world. This book highlights how Trinidad and Naipaul were bound in a love-hate relationship where Naipaul continued to pass Trinidad off as a cynical island where “nothing was created” while Trinidad had its share by laying back a claim on him and his writing. It is generally perceived that Naipaul shunned his place of birth as he called his birth in Trinidad a “mistake,” Trinidad an “unimportant, uncreative, cynical” place and the Caribbean as the “Third World’s Third World.” His refusal to acknowledge Trinidad in his initial response to receiving the Nobel Prize added insult to injury. Yet, he was deeply bound to the island of Trinidad and his roots in the Indo-Trinidadian community. This book makes Naipaul’s connection to Trinidad more than evident and as such adds to the present body of knowledge.

A Way in the World

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307401472
Total Pages : 400 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book A Way in the World written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Mimic Men

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Author : V. S. Naipaul
Publisher : Vintage Canada
ISBN 13 : 0307370534
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book The Mimic Men written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sober novel about a tempestuous and tormented soul carrying the burdens of postcolonialism in London. Winner of the W. H. Smith Literary Award.