A Writer's People: Ways of Looking and Feeling

作者 V. S. Naipaul著
出版社 Picador
出版时间 2011年6月
ISBN 9780330522984
定价 122.00

内容简介

Forthe'serioustraveller',onewhoisfullyengagedwiththeworld,therecanbenosingleview.Ourauthor'spurpose,then,'isnotliterarycriticismorbiography',butonlytosetoutthewritingandwaysofseeingtowhichhewasexposed.SohereiscolonialTrinidad(theearlyDerekWalcottandNaipaul'sownfather);thecultureofschool(Flaubertandtheclassicalworld);England,wherewiththehelpoffriendsthewriterseekstomakehisway;and,inevitablyforacolonialIndian,thereisIndia,tobeapproachedthroughtheresidueofIndiancultureandthescatteredmemoriesofnineteenth-centuryimmigrants,leadingtoaspecialunderstandingofMahatmaGandhi.Partmeditation,partremembrance,AWriter'sPeopleisaprivilegedinsight,fullofgentleness,humourandfeeling,intothemindofoneofourgreatestwriters.

作者简介

V.S.NaipaulwasborninTrinidadin1932.HewenttoEnglandonascholarshipin1950.AfterfouryearsatUniversityCollege,Oxford,hebegantowrite,andsincethenhasfollowednootherprofession.Hehaspublishedmorethantwentybooksoffictionandnon-fiction,includingHalfaLife,AHouseforMrBiswas,ABendintheRiverandmostrecentlyTheMasqueofAfrica,andacollectionofcorrespondence,LettersBetweenaFatherandSon.In2001hewasawardedtheNobelPrizeinLiterature.

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