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Book Synopsis A House for Mr. Biswas by : V. S. Naipaul
Download or read book A House for Mr. Biswas written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous -- and endless -- struggle to weaken their hold over him, and purchase a house of his own.
Book Synopsis A House for Mr. Biswas by : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Download or read book A House for Mr. Biswas written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by A. Deutsch. This book was released on 1984 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mr Biswas is a man who is not naturally rebellious, but in whom rebellion is inspired by the forces of ritual, myth and custom. Though he has married into the family, Mr Biswas remains an outsider and refuses to follow the family in their habitual devotions.
Book Synopsis A house for Mr. Biswas by : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Download or read book A house for Mr. Biswas written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A House for Mr Biswas by : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Download or read book A House for Mr Biswas written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 589 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River by : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Download or read book A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Beiträge zu Komparatistik und Sozialgeschichte der Literatur by : Alberto Martino
Download or read book Beiträge zu Komparatistik und Sozialgeschichte der Literatur written by Alberto Martino and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 1997 with total page 968 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Zahlreiche Fachkollegen und Schüler haben sich zusammengefunden, um in diesem Band Alberto Martino zu seinem 60. Geburtstag die Ehre zu erweisen. Mit diesem Geschenk soll der Forscher und Lehrer gewürdigt werden, dessen beständiges Interesse an den literarischen Wechselbeziehungen in Europa und an einer sozialgeschichtlich orientierten, auf Quellen-material fundierten Literaturgeschichte vielen als Anregung diente, ja sogar zum Vorbild wurde.
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Book Synopsis The Enigma of Arrival by : V. S. Naipaul
Download or read book The Enigma of Arrival written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The autobiographical novel of a journey from the British colony of Trinidad to the ancient countryside of England.
Book Synopsis A Writer's People by : V. S. Naipaul
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.
Download or read book Half a Life written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2002-10-08 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.
Download or read book Miguel Street written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A tender, funny novel written with the verve of Dickens and the passion of Chekhov, set during World War II in a derelict neighborhood in Trinidad’s capital and narrated by an unnamed boy—from the Nobel Prize-winning author. “One of the few contemporary writers of whom we can speak in terms of greatness.” —Newsday “A stranger could drive through Miguel Street and just say ‘Slum!’ because he could see no more.” But to its residents this corner of Trinidad’s capital 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.” There’s Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion, and the dreaded Big Foot, the bully with glass tear ducts. There’s the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. This tender, funny early novel is a work of mercurial mood shifts, by turns sweetly melancholy and anarchically funny. It overflows with life on every page.
Download or read book Magic Seeds written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-02-10 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning author continues the story of Willie Chandran, the perennially dissatisfied and self-destructively naive protagonist of his bestselling Half a Life. “The most essential English-language novelist of our time.” —New York Having left a wife and a livelihood in Africa, Willie is persuaded to return to his native India to join an underground movement on behalf of its oppressed lower castes. Instead he finds himself in the company of dilettantes and psychopaths, relentlessly hunted by police and spurned by the people he means to liberate. But this is only one stop in a quest for authenticity that takes in all the fanaticism and folly of the postmodern era. Moving with dreamlike swiftness from guerrilla encampment to prison cell, from the squalor of rural India to the glut and moral desolation of 1980s London, Magic Seeds is a novel of oracular power, dazzling in its economy and unblinking in its observations.
Book Synopsis Between Father and Son by : V. S. Naipaul
Download or read book Between Father and Son written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An “extraordinary rich correspondence” (The New York Times Book Review) between a seventeen-year-old aspiring writer at Oxford who would go on to become a Nobel Prize winning author and his sacrificing, beloved father. At seventeen, V.S. Naipaul wanted to "follow no other profession" but writing. Awarded a scholarship by the Trinidadian government, he set out to attend Oxford, where he encountered a vastly different world from the one he yearned to leave behind. Separated from his family by continents, and grappling with depression, financial strain, loneliness, and dislocation, "Vido" bridged the distance with a faithful correspondence that began shortly before the young man's two-week journey to England and ended soon after his father's death four years later. Here, for the first time, we have the opportunity to read this profoundly moving correspondence, which illuminates with unalloyed candor the relationship between a sacrificing father and his determined son as they encourage each other to persevere with their writing. For though his father's literary aspirations would go unrealized, Naipaul's triumphant career would ultimately vindicate his beloved mentor's legacy.
Book Synopsis A Turn in the South by : V. S. Naipaul
Download or read book A Turn in the South written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2011-03-30 with total page 433 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a revealing and disturbing book about the American South—from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. • “His comprehension is astute and penetrating.... The book he has written brings new understanding [of] the subject.” —The New York Times Book Review In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South is his first book about the United States. “Naipaul’s chapters honor the diversity that marks the South.... Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways … fascinating and revealing.” —The New Republic “Mr. Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.” —Evelyn Waugh “A master of English prose.” —Nobel Prize Winner J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books "His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance.... No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality." —Atlantic Monthly
Book Synopsis Among The Believers by : V. S. Naipaul
Download or read book Among The Believers written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2011-12-14 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Naipaul’s controversial account of his travels through the Islamic world, hailed by The New Republic as “the most notable work on contemporary Islam to have appeared in a very long time.”
Download or read book The Mimic Men written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Enigma of Arrival comes a profound novel of cultural displacement, masterfully evoking a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. “No one else … seems able to employ prose fiction so deeply as the very voice of exile.” —The New York Review of Books Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.
Book Synopsis A Bend in the River by : Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
Download or read book A Bend in the River written by Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul and published by Alfred A. Knopf. This book was released on 1979 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1979, A Bend in the River is a profound and richly observed novel of the politics and society of postcolonial Africa. Salim, a young Indian man, moves to a town on a bend in the river of a recently independent nation. As Salim strives to establish his business, he comes to be closely involved with the fluid and dangerous politics of the newly created state, the remnants of the old regime clashing inevitably with the new. "Naipaul's novels are about the struggle for existence in a world still colonial despite the breakup of the old Western empires," wrote Alfred Kazin. A Bend in the River is demonstration of V. S. Naipaul's status as one of the world's best novelists. The New York Times Book Review noted: "For sheer abundance of talent there can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses V. S. Naipaul." Elizabeth Hardwick, who has provided a The Modern Library has played a significant role in American cultural life for the better part of a century. The series was founded in 1917 by the publishers Boni and Liveright and eight years later acquired by Bennett Cerf and Donald Klopfer. It provided the foundation for their next publishing venture, Random House. The Modern Library has been a staple of the American book trade, providing readers with afford- able hardbound editions of impor- tant works of literature and thought. For the Modern Library's seventy- fifth anniversary, Random House redesigned the series, restoring as its emblem the running torch- bearer created by Lucian Bernhard in 1925 and refurbishing jackets, bindings, and type, as well as inau- gurating a new program of selecting titles. The Modern Library continues to provide the world's best books, at the best prices. For a complete list of titles, see the inside of the jacketnew Introduction for this Modern Library edition, has said, "The sweep of Naipaul's imagination, the brilliant fictional frame that expresses it, are in my view without equal today."
