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Literary occasions essays

A rich collection of essays on reading, writing, and identity from our finest writer in English, V.S. Naipaul. -- Literary Occasions These moving and thoughtful pieces are accompanied by Naipaul's profound and severe discussions of other authors, including his signal essay on Conrad, and the classic "Indian Autobiographies. "The collection is completed by "Two Worlds, "the magnificent Nobel Address, in which Naipaul considers the indivisibility of the literary and the personal. Sustained by extraordinary powers of expression and thought, -- From the Hardcover edition.

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  • "A rich collection of essays on reading, writing, and identity from our finest writer in English, V.S. Naipaul. -- Literary Occasions These moving and thoughtful pieces are accompanied by Naipaul's profound and severe discussions of other authors, including his signal essay on Conrad, and the classic "Indian Autobiographies. "The collection is completed by "Two Worlds, "the magnificent Nobel Address, in which Naipaul considers the indivisibility of the literary and the personal. Sustained by extraordinary powers of expression and thought, -- From the Hardcover edition."@en
  • "Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul brings his signature gifts of observation, his ferocious impatience with received truths, and his masterfully condensed prose to these eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity'which have been brought together for the first time. Here the subject is Naipaul's literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently cited as his forebear, and, in his celebrated Nobel Lecture, "Two Worlds," traces the full arc of his own career. Literary Occasions is an indispensable addition to the Naipaul oeuvre, penetrating, elegant, and affecting. From the Trade Paperback edition."
  • "Offers eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity, discussing such topics as early forays into the world of books, the relationship between different literary forms and their cultures, and the author's reflections on his career."
  • "Offers eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity, discussing such topics as early forays into the world of books, the relationship between different literary forms and their cultures, and the author's reflections on his career."@en

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  • "Livres électroniques"
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