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Writer and the World: Essays
出版社： Random House, Inc. (International Division)
書林書號：
20262648
作者：
Naipaul, V. S./ Mishra, Pankaj
定價：
595
會員價：
$506
ISBN：
9780375707308
出版年份：
2003
裝訂：
平裝
總頁數：
0
  • 本書介紹
Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how each deals with the challenges of modernity and the seductions of both the real and mythical past.

Whether he is writing about a string of racial murders in Trinidad; the mad, corrupt reign of Mobutu in Zaire; Argentina under the generals; or Dallas during the 1984 Republican Convention, Naipaul combines intellectual playfulness with sorrow, indignation, and analysis so far-reaching that it approaches prophecy. The Writer and the World reminds us that he is in a class by himself.
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