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V. S. Naipaul is perhaps the most famous emigre writer since Vladimir Nabokov, and though he always spoke and wrote English, his self-imposed exile to England from his native Trinidad represented a cultural shift as profound as learning to think in another language. In this moving, novel-like correspondence, we witness the great writer's early transformation from an expatriate adrift to a world-renowned man of letters. The letters collected he...

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En Leer y escribir, el Nobel V. S. Naipaul pasa revista a su relación con la lectura y con el hecho de escribir.El Nobel V. S. Naipaul abandona la ficción para adentrarse en la memoria personal. En este sencillo y penetrante libro pasa revista a su relación con la lectura y con el hecho de escribir. Habla de la tradición hindú, de sus primeras y definitivas lecturas y del sentido de la literatura.

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In A Writer's People, Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul takes us into the process of creative and intellectual assimilation which 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 con...

In his first book of nonfiction since 2003, the Nobel Laureate gives us an eloquent, intimate exploration into ways of looking and feeling and how they alter the configuration of the writers world.

In his first book of nonfiction since 2003, the Nobel Laureate gives us an eloquent, intimate exploration into ways of looking and feeling and how they alter the configuration of the writers world.

The Caribbean area--a scattering of ethnic and racial groups with a history of colonialism and bloody attempts to assert nationhood--provides an exciting background for these tales of wit, melancholy, resentment, fantasy, and superstition. If the Caribbeans are searching for a "newness, " a "cool upheaval of the spirit, " as Salkey suggests in the introduction, then the writers gathered together here--from the outstanding such as V. S. Naipaul...

Naipaul nos cuenta la pequeña y gran historia de su isla natal: Trinidad.Desde los primeros tiempos de la Conquista, Trinidad fue punto de partida para las alocadas y sangrientas expediciones españolas en busca de la mítica Ciudad de Oro. Fue también territorio de combate para las ambiciones coloniales de Inglaterra, que no se detuvo hasta hacerse con el poder en la zona aprovechando los trastornos que dieron lugar, a principios del siglo XIX,...

No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people--Bobby, a civil servant with a gui...

Attratto da un richiamo fatale nel cuore dell'Africa, il giovane Salim, indiano di fede musulmana, lascia la costa orientale del continente per rilevare da un amico di famiglia un eccentrico bazar in riva a un fiume punteggiato dalle "isole scure" dei giacinti e circondato da un paesaggio primordiale di foreste, torrenti nascosti e impervi, canali infestati da zanzare e solcati da chiatte, buganvillee rigogliose, tramonti velati di nuvole lung...

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La historia del viaje vital de un escritor hacia la comprensión.Un camino en el mundo es la historia del viaje vital de un escritor hacia la comprensión, tanto de los sencillos materiales de la herencia -la lengua, el carácter, la historia familiar- como de las largas y entretejidas hebras de un pasado histórico profundamente complejo: «Cosas apenas recordadas, cosas que solo se liberan mediante el acto de escribir.» Lo que Naipaul escribe, lo...

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In his first book of nonfiction since 2003, the Nobel Laureate gives us an eloquent, intimate exploration into ways of looking and feeling and how they alter the configuration of the writers world.

Like all of Naipaul's "travel" books, "The Masque of Africa" encompasses a much larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief upon the progress of civilization.

Offers insight into the author's range and creative process, in a treasury that includes pieces from such classics as "Miguel Street" and "In a Free State.

A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man' s experience in a postcolonial world. 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 ...