Overview of The Writer and the World Book

During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world. Now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage many of which have been unavailable for some time are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples through the prism of his experience. Whether writing about Indian mutinies and despair, Mobutu s mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections, he demonstrates time and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the ways in which the world works. Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The Writer and the World attests powerfully not only to Naipaul s status as the great English prose stylist of our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding. All [of these essays] are worth reading (and rereading), both for the contemporary and historical information and insight they artfully impart and for what they tell us about a uniquely complex writer Spectator How few writers there are, if any, who share his sense of mission and moral authority, who have his willingness to learn and to travel and his miraculous gift of language. Observer

• Book Type :

Essays

• Book Binding :

Paperback

• Language :

English

• Number of Pages :

• ISBN - 10 :

0330523694

• The Writer and the World Published On :

3 Jun 2011

• Resource:

Literature & Fiction, Essays Books for Students, Teachers, Graudates, Professionals and all others

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