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Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul’s boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; Naipaul’s observations on Conrad, his literary forebear; the moving preface he wrote to the only book his father ever published; and his reflections on his career, ending with his celebrated Nobel lecture ‘Two Worlds’. A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul’s previous volume of highly-acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.
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Literary occasions : essays, V. S. Naipaul, Pankaj Mishra
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- Released
- 2004
- Binding
- (Paperback)
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- Language
- English
- Authors
- V. S. Naipaul, Pankaj Mishra
- Publisher
- Picador
- Released
- 2004
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 224
- ISBN10
- 0330420232
- ISBN13
- 9780330420235
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, True Stories, Biographies, Contemporary Fiction, Opinion Journalism & Essays, Writing, Criticism
- Rating
- 3.7 out of 5
- Description
- Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul’s boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; Naipaul’s observations on Conrad, his literary forebear; the moving preface he wrote to the only book his father ever published; and his reflections on his career, ending with his celebrated Nobel lecture ‘Two Worlds’. A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul’s previous volume of highly-acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.