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| naipaul one out of many: In a Free State V. S. Naipaul, 2011-03-30 From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a riveting tour de force that examines emigration, dislocation, and dread. “The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.” —The New York Times Book Review No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. In the beginning it is just a car trip through Africa. Two English people—Bobby, a civil servant with a guilty appetite for African boys, and Linda, a supercilious “compound wife”—are driving back to their enclave after a stay in the capital. But in between lies the landscape of an unnamed country whose squalor and ethnic bloodletting suggest Idi Amin’s Uganda. And the farther Naipaul’s protagonists travel into it, the more they find themselves crossing the line that separates privileged outsiders from horrified victims. Alongside this Conradian tour de force are four incisive portraits of men seeking liberation far from home. By turns funny and terrifying, sorrowful and unsparing, In A Free State is Naipaul at his best. |
| naipaul one out of many: The Change of an Immigrant's Identity in "One Out of Many" Julia Knoth, 2018-04-30 Seminar paper from the year 2013 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Literature, grade: 1,3, University of Kassel (Anglistik/Amerikanistik Literaturwissenschaften), course: Introduction to Caribbean Literature, language: English, abstract: In One out of Many, written by V.S. Naipaul, Santosh emigrates from India to America and has to cope with the situation of being an illegal immigrant and finding a new identity. One out of Many is one of three short stories of the novel In a free state, first published in 1971. The leading question that will be answered in the course of this paper is: How does Santosh‘s identity change when he emigrates from India to America? In this paper, I will attempt to show that, isolated from American society, Santosh remains a marginalized outsider who is torn between two cultures and has lost his roots. In order to examine the question of Santosh‘s identity, I will look at the narrator‘s perspective and its reflection of Santosh‘s situation in the first step. Secondly, Santosh‘s process of change will be described and analyzed thoroughly by looking at key scenes. The goal of describing a process brings the necessity of comparing his new life in America to his former life in India. This way, the focus will be on the changes Santosh makes. Describing his development in America, I will consider the way Santosh sees himself in India and I will find out how he assimilates to American culture. After Santosh‘s personal development, I will continue with Santosh‘s place in society, because the relations to other people are crucial when it comes to identity. At this point, the relation to different sub-cultures will be taken into consideration. |
| naipaul one out of many: India V. S. Naipaul, 2017 An area of darkness: Semi-autobiographical account of the author's first visit to India, the land of his forebears. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent |
| naipaul one out of many: Half a Life V. S. Naipaul, 2012-03-15 One of the finest living writers in the English language, V. S. Naipaul gives us a tale as wholly unexpected as it is affecting, his first novel since the exultantly acclaimed A Way in the World, published seven years ago. Half a Life is the story of Willie Chandran, whose father, heeding the call of Mahatma Gandhi, turned his back on his brahmin heritage and married a woman of low caste—a disastrous union he would live to regret, as he would the children that issued from it. When Willie reaches manhood, his flight from the travails of his mixed birth takes him from India to London, where, in the shabby haunts of immigrants and literary bohemians of the 1950s, he contrives a new identity. This is what happens as he tries to defeat self-doubt in sexual adventures and in the struggle to become a writer—strivings that bring him to the brink of exhaustion, from which he is rescued, to his amazement, only by the love of a good woman. And this is what happens when he returns with her—carried along, really—to her home in Africa, to live, until the last doomed days of colonialism, yet another life not his own. In a luminous narrative that takes us across three continents, Naipaul explores his great theme of inheritance with an intimacy and directness unsurpassed in his extraordinary body of work. And even as he lays bare the bitter comical ironies of assumed identities, he gives us a poignant spectacle of the enervation peculiar to a borrowed life. In one man’s determined refusal of what he has been given to be, Naipaul reveals the way of all our experience. As Willie comes to see, “Everything goes on a bias. The world should stop, but it goes on.” A masterpiece of economy and emotional nuance, Half a Life is an indelible feat of the imagination. |
| naipaul one out of many: The Enigma of Arrival V. S. Naipaul, 2011-04-20 The Nobel Prize-winning author distills his wide experience of countries and peoples into a moving account of the rites of passage endured by all people and all communities undergoing change or decay. • Naipaul's finest work. —Chicago Tribune A subtly incisive self-reckoning. —The Washington Post Book World The story of a writer’s singular journey – from one place to another, and from one state of mind to another. At the midpoint of the century, the narrator leaves the British colony of Trinidad and comes to the ancient countryside of England. And from within the story of this journey – of departure and arrival, alienation and familiarity, home and homelessness – the writer reveals how, cut off from his “first” life in Trinidad, he enters a “second childhood of seeing and learning.” Clearly autobiographical, yet woven through with remarkable invention, The Enigma of Arrival is as rich and complex as any novel we have had from this exceptional writer. The conclusion is both heart-breaking and bracing: the only antidote to destruction—of dreams, of reality—is remembering. As eloquently as anyone now writing, Naipaul remembers. —Time Far and away the most curious novel I've read in a long time, and maybe the most hypnotic book I've ever read. —St. Petersburg Times |
| naipaul one out of many: Reading and Writing V. S. Naipaul, 2000-02-28 I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between the wish and its fulfillment. To become a writer, he would have to find ways of understanding three very different cultures: his family's half-remembered Indian homeland, the West Indian colonial society in which he grew up, and the wholly foreign world of the English novels he read. In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer. He pays particular attention to the traumas of India under its various conquerors and the painful sense of dereliction and loss that shadows writers' attempts to capture the country and its people in prose. Naipaul's profound reflections on the relations between personal or historical experience and literary form, between the novel and the world, reveal how he came to discover both his voice and the subjects of his writing, and how he learned to turn sometimes to fiction, sometimes to the travel narrative, to portray them truthfully. Along the way he offers insights into the novel's prodigious development as a form for depicting and interpreting society in the nineteenth century and its diminishing capacity to do the same in the twentiethÑa task that, in his view, passed to the creative energies of the early cinema. As a child trying to read, I had felt that two worlds separated me from the books that were offered to me at school and in the libraries: the childhood world of our remembered India, and the more colonial world of our city. ... What I didn't know, even after I had written my early books of fiction ... was that those two spheres of darkness had become my subject. Fiction, working its mysteries, by indirections finding directions out, had led me to my subject. But it couldn't take me all the way. -V.S. Naipaul, from Reading & Writing |
| naipaul one out of many: A House for Mr Biswas V. S. Naipaul, 2011 Traditional Chinese edition of A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. It is a story of Mr. Biswas's struggle for independence, but more importantly, it is his fight for dignity and a life with meaning. A House for Mr. Biswas is touted as Naipaul's finest novel. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc. |
| naipaul one out of many: A Turn in the South V. S. Naipaul, 2011-03-30 The Nobel Prize-winning author delivers a revealing and disturbing book about the American South—from Atlanta to Charleston, Tallahassee to Tuskegee, Nashville to Chapel Hill. • “His comprehension is astute and penetrating.... The book he has written brings new understanding [of] the subject.” —The New York Times Book Review In the tradition of political and cultural revelation V.S. Naipaul so brilliantly made his own in Among The Believers, A Turn In The South is his first book about the United States. “Naipaul’s chapters honor the diversity that marks the South.... Conservatives and liberals, whites and blacks, men and women speak for themselves, and reveal the dark side of the story in their own ways … fascinating and revealing.” —The New Republic “Mr. Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.” —Evelyn Waugh “A master of English prose.” —Nobel Prize Winner J. M. Coetzee, The New York Review of Books His writing is clean and beautiful, and he has a great eye for nuance.... No American writer could achieve [his] kind of evenhandedness, and it gives Naipaul's perceptions an almost built-in originality. —Atlantic Monthly |
| naipaul one out of many: A House for Mr. Biswas V. S. Naipaul, 2012-11-13 In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous -- and endless -- struggle to weaken their hold over him, and purchase a house of his own. |
| naipaul one out of many: The Writer and the World V. S. Naipaul, 2012-03-22 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 |
| naipaul one out of many: Miguel Street V. S. Naipaul, 2012-11-13 To the residents of Miguel Street, a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital, their neighbourhood is a complete world, where everybody is quite different from everybody else. There’s Popo the carpenter, who neglects his livelihood to build “the thing without a name;” Man-man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion; Big Foot, the dreaded bully with glass tear ducts; and the lovely Mrs. Hereira, in thrall to her monstrous husband. Their lives (and the legends their neighbours construct around them) are rendered by V. S. Naipaul with Dickensian verve and Chekhovian compassion in this tender, funny novel. |
| naipaul one out of many: The World is what it is Patrick French, 2008 V.S. Naipaul is the most compelling literary figure of the last fifty years. Producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and non-fiction, his is a gift born of a forceful, visionary impulse. With great feeling for his formidable body of work, and exclusive access to his private papers and personal recollections, Patrick French has produced a luminous and astonishing account of this enigmatic genius. V.S. Naipaul was born in Trinidad, into an Indian family. French examines early privations, Naipaul’s life within a displaced community and his talent and fierce ambition at school, which won him a scholarship to Oxford at the age of seventeen. He describes how, once in England, homesickness and depression struck with great force, and the ways in which Naipaul, supported by his first wife, overcame his ‘double exile’, culminating in the production of early masterpieces such as A House for Mr Biswas, An Area of Darkness and In a Free State . Through the uncertainties of life in London, and later in Wiltshire, Naipaul and his wife were to stay together for over four decades, even after he embarked on an intense twenty-five-year love affair. As his reputation grew, as prizes and accolades were bestowed, as a second wave of breathtaking creation generated A Bend in the River, Among the Believers and The Enigma of Arrival, Naipaul found and sustained an extraordinary position both outside and at the centre of literary culture. Researched with the full cooperation of its Nobel Prize-winning subject, Patrick French traces with sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight the roots of V.S. Naipaul’s unparalleled gift, in what will become a landmark in biography. |
| naipaul one out of many: Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul V. S. Naipaul, 2011-04-12 For the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning author’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. • “Naipaul is the world’s writer, a master of language and perception.” —The New York Times Book Review Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize– winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting. No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. |
| naipaul one out of many: The Masque of Africa V. S. Naipaul, 2010-10-19 Understanding Africa is critical for all concerned with the world today: in what promises to be his final great work of reportage, one of the keenest observers of the continent surveys the effects of belief and religion on the disparate peoples of Africa. The Masque of Africa is Nobel Prize-winning V. S. Naipaul's first major work of non-fiction to be published since his internationally bestselling Beyond Belief. Like all of Naipaul's great works of non-fiction, The Masque of Africa is superficially a book of travels — full of people, stories and landscapes he visits — but it also encompasses a larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (whether in indigenous animisms, faiths imposed by other cultures, or even the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization. |
| naipaul one out of many: A Bend in the River V. S. Naipaul, 2018-08-21 In the brilliant novel (The New York Times) V.S. Naipaul takes us deeply into the life of one man — an Indian who, uprooted by the bloody tides of Third World history, has come to live in an isolated town at the bend of a great river in a newly independent African nation. Naipaul gives us the most convincing and disturbing vision yet of what happens in a place caught between the dangerously alluring modern world and its own tenacious past and traditions. |
| naipaul one out of many: A Way in the World V. S. Naipaul, 2011-04-20 The Nobel Prize-winning author—and one of literature's great travelers (Los Angeles Times)—spans continents and centuries to create what is at once an autobiography and a fictional archaeology of colonialism. Dickensian … a brilliant new prism through which to view (Naipaul's) life and work.—The New York Times “Most of us know the parents or grandparents we come from. But we go back and back, forever: we go back all of us to the very beginning: in our blood and bone and brain we carry the memories of thousands of beings.” So observes the opening narrator of A Way in the World, and it is this conundrum—that the bulk of our inheritance must remain beyond our grasp—which suffuses this extraordinary work of fiction. Returning to the autobiographical mode he so brilliantly explored in The Enigma of Arrival, and writing here in the classic form of linked narrations, Naipaul constructs a story of remarkable resonance and power, remembrance and invention. It is the story of a writer’s lifelong journey towards an understanding of both the simple stuff of inheritance — language, character, family history — and the long interwoven strands of a deeply complicated historical past: “things barely remembered, things released only by the act of writing.” What he writes — and what his release of memory enables us to see — is a series of extended, illuminated moments in the history of Spanish and British imperialism in the Caribbean: Raleigh’s final, shameful expedition to the New World; Francisco Miranda’s disastrous invasion of South America in the eighteenth century; the more subtle aggressions of the mid-twentieth-century English writer Foster Morris; the transforming and distorting peregrinations of Blair, the black Trinidadian revolutionary. Each episode is viewed through the clarifying lens of the narrator’s own post-colonial experience as a Trinidadian of Indian descent who, during the twilight of the Empire, immigrates to England, reinventing himself in order to escape the very history he is intent upon telling. |
| naipaul one out of many: Sir Vidia's Shadow Paul Theroux, 2014-02-11 The acclaimed writer shares an intimate portrait of his former mentor V.S. Naipaul in this memoir of their thirty-year friendship and sudden falling out. Paul Theroux was a young aspiring writer when he met the legendary V.S. Naipaul in Uganda in 1966. There began a friendship that would span continents as both men ascended the ranks of literary stardom. Naipaul’s early encouragement of Theroux’s talent had a profound impact on him—yet the apprenticeship was not always easy. This heartfelt and revealing account of Theroux's thirty-year friendship with Naipaul explores the unique effect each writer had on the other. Built around exotic landscapes, anecdotes that are revealing, humorous, and melancholy, and three decades of mutual history, this is a personal account of how one develops as a writer and how a friendship waxes and wanes between two men who have set themselves on the perilous journey of a writing life. A New York Times Notable Book |
| naipaul one out of many: The Middle Passage V. S. Naipaul, 1962 Naipul's first work of travel writing is an account of his journey in 1950 from London to his birthplace, Trinidad. He offers a record of his impressions there and elsewhere in the West Indies and South America, and examines their common heritage of colonialism and slavery. |
| naipaul one out of many: Conversations with V. S. Naipaul Feroza F. Jussawalla, 1997 This collection brings together interviews from a thirty-six-year span and reveals a witty, sometimes scathing talker with a free-ranging curiosity. In early interviews, mostly given to such fellow writers and colleagues as Derek Walcott and Eric Roach, Naipul is clipped, brusque, and clearly impatient with interviewers. More recent interviews, given primarily to journalists rather than literary figures, reveal a more mellow Naipaul, often warm, passionate, and forthcoming about his private life. |
| naipaul one out of many: Finding the Center Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 1986 |
| naipaul one out of many: A Writer's People V.S. Naipaul, 2012-03-22 Part meditation, part remembrance, A Writer’s People by V. S. Naipaul is a privileged insight, full of gentleness, humour and feeling, into the mind of one of our greatest writers. For the ‘serious traveller’, one who is fully engaged with the world, there can be no single view. Our author’s purpose, then, ‘is not literary criticism or biography’, but only to set out the writing and ways of seeing to which he was exposed. So here is colonial Trinidad (the early Derek Walcott and Naipaul’s own father); the culture of school (Flaubert and the classical world); England, where with the help of friends the writer seeks to make his way; and, inevitably for a colonial Indian, there is India, to be approached through the residue of Indian culture and the scattered memories of nineteenth-century immigrants, leading to a special understanding of Mahatma Gandhi. |
| naipaul one out of many: Among the Believers V. S. Naipaul, 2011-03-23 The Nobel Prize-winning author gives us – on the basis of his own intensive seventeen month journey across the Asian continent – an unprecedented revelation of the Islamic world. • “A brilliant report…. A book of scathing inquiry and judgment, whose tragic power is being continually reinforced by current events” (Newsweek). With all the narrative power and intellectual authority that have distinguished his earlier books and won him international acclaim (“There can hardly be a writer alive who surpasses him” – Irving Howe, The New York Times Book Review), Naipaul explores the life, the culture, the ferment inside the nations of Islam – in a book that combines the fascinations of the great works of travel literature with the insights of a uniquely sharp, original, and idiosyncratic political mind. He takes us into four countries in the throes of “Islamization” – countries that, in their ardor to build new societies based entirely on the fundamental laws of Islam, have violently rejected the “materialism” of the technologically advanced nations that have long supported them. He brings us close to the people of Islam – how they live and work, the role of faith in their lives, how they see their place in the modern world. |
| naipaul one out of many: Guerrillas V. S. Naipaul, 2011-04-13 From the Nobel Prize-winning author comes a novel of exile, displacement, and the agonizing cruelty and pain of colonialism, both for those who rule and those who are their victims. “A brilliant novel in every way.… [It] shimmers with artistic certainty.” —The New York Times Book Review Set on a troubled Carribbean island, where “everybody wants to fight his own little war,” where “everyone is a guerrilla,” the novel centers on an Englishman named Roche, once a hero of the South African resistance, who has come to the island – subdued now, almost withdrawn – to work and to help. Soon his English mistress arrives: casually nihilistic, bored, quickly enticed – excited – by fantasies of native power and sexuality, and blindly unaware of any possible consequences of her acts. At once Roche and Jane are drawn into fatal connection with a young guerrilla leader named Jimmy Ahmed, a man driven by his own raging fantasies of power, of perverse sensuality, and of the England he half remembers, half sentimentalizes. Against the larger anguish of the world they inhabit, these three act out a drama of death, hideous sexual violence, and political and spiritual impotence that profoundly reflects the ravages history can make on human lives. |
| naipaul one out of many: India: A Wounded Civilization V. S. Naipaul, 2012-11-13 In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s Emergency, V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years before. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece of journalism and cultural analysis, a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by repeated foreign invasions and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, and political memoirs -- but most of all on his conversations with ordinary Indians, from princes to engineers and feudal village autocrats -- Naipaul captures India’s manifold complexities. |
| naipaul one out of many: V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought William Ghosh, 2020-11-12 V.S. Naipaul was one of the most influential and controversial writers of the twentieth century. His writings on colonialism and its aftermath, on migration and landscape, and on cultural loss and creativity, were both admired and criticised by a wide global audience. But what of his relationship to the region of his birth? Born in Trinidad, of Indian ancestry, and spending his professional life in England, Naipaul could be dismissive of his Caribbean background. He presented himself as a citizen of nowhere, or else, of the globalized, postcolonial world. However, this obscures his intense competition, fierce disagreements and close collaboration with other Caribbean intellectuals, both as a schoolchild in colonial Trinidad, and as an internationally celebrated author. V.S. Naipaul, Caribbean Writing, and Caribbean Thought looks again at Naipaul's relationship with his birthplace. It shows that that the decolonising Caribbean was the crucible in which Naipaul's style and outlook were formed. Moreover, understanding Naipaul's place in the history of the region's politics and letters sheds new light on the work of celebrated contemporaries, Derek Walcott and Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming and Maryse Condè, Elsa Goveia and Eric Williams, Sylvia Wynter and C.L.R. James. Literary criticism, intellectual biography, and an essay in the history of ideas, this book offers a new account of Caribbean thought in the decades after independence. It reveals a literary culture of creative vibrancy, in an era of unprecedented change. |
| naipaul one out of many: The Return of Eva Peron Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 1988 |
| naipaul one out of many: A State of Freedom Neel Mukherjee, 2017-07-06 Longlisted for the DSC Prize for South Asian Literature What happens when we attempt to exchange the life we are given for something better? Five people, in very different circumstances, from a domestic cook in Mumbai, to a vagrant and his dancing bear, and a girl who escapes terror in her home village for a new life in the city, find out the meanings of dislocation, and the desire for more. Set in contemporary India and moving between the reality of this world and the shadow of another, this novel delivers a devastating and haunting exploration of the unquenchable human urge to strive for a different life. |
| naipaul one out of many: An Area of Darkness V. S. Naipaul, 2012-03-22 The first book in V. S. Naipaul’s acclaimed Indian trilogy – with a preface by the author. An Area of Darkness is V. S. Naipaul’s semi-autobiographical account – at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered – of his first visit to India, the land of his forebears. He was twenty-nine years old; he stayed for a year. From the moment of his inauspicious arrival in Prohibition-dry Bombay, bearing whisky and cheap brandy, he experienced a cultural estrangement from the subcontinent. It became for him a land of myths, an area of darkness closing up behind him as he travelled . . . The experience was not a pleasant one, but the pain the author suffered was creative rather than numbing, and engendered a masterful work of literature that provides a revelation both of India and of himself: a displaced person who paradoxically possesses a stronger sense of place than almost anyone. ‘His narrative skill is spectacular. One returns with pleasure to the slow hand-in-hand revelations of both India and himself’ – The Times |
| naipaul one out of many: V. S. Naipaul's Journeys Sanjay Krishnan, 2020-01-21 Sanjay Krishnan rereads V. S. Naipaul's work to offer new perspectives on his achievements, shortcomings, trajectory, and complicated legacy. While recognizing the flaws and prejudices that shaped and limited Naipaul's life and art, this book challenges the binaries that have restricted discussions of his writing. |
| naipaul one out of many: The Mimic Men V. S. Naipaul, 2011-12-14 A sober novel about a tempestuous and tormented soul carrying the burdens of postcolonialism in London. Winner of the W. H. Smith Literary Award. |
| naipaul one out of many: Journey to Nowhere Shiva Naipaul, 1982 Examines the events, trends, personalities, and politics in Guyana and in California that enabled Jim Jones and his Peoples Temple to flourish and to enact a bizarre mass death. |
| naipaul one out of many: The Indian Trilogy V. S. Naipaul, 2016-11-17 AN AREA OF DARKNESS 'Brilliant ... tender, lyrical, explosive' Observer V.S. Naipaul was twenty-nine when he first visited India. This is his semi-autobiographical account-at once painful and hilarious, but always thoughtful and considered-a revelation both of the country and of himself. INDIA: A WOUNDED CIVILIZATION 'A devastating work, but proof that a novelist of Naipaul's stature can often define problems quicker and more effectively than a team of economists and other experts' The Times Prompted by the Emergency of 1975, Naipaul casts a more analytical eye, convinced that India, wounded by a thousand years of foreign rule, has not yet found an ideology of regeneration. INDIA: A MILLION MUTINIES NOW 'Indispensable for anyone who wants seriously to come to grips with the experience of India' New York Times Book Review It is twenty-six years since Naipaul's first trip to India. Taking an anti-clockwise journey around the metropolises-including Bombay, Madras, Calcutta and Delhi-he focuses on the country's development since Independence. The author recedes, allowing Indians to tell the stories, and a dynamic oral history of the country emerges. |
| naipaul one out of many: Cosmopolitanism Dipesh Chakrabarty, Homi K. Bhabha, Sheldon Pollock, Carol A. Breckenridge, 2002-05-10 As the final installment of Public Culture’s Millennial Quartet, Cosmopolitanism assesses the pasts and possible futures of cosmopolitanism—or ways of thinking, feeling, and acting beyond one’s particular society. With contributions from distinguished scholars in disciplines such as literary studies, art history, South Asian studies, and anthropology, this volume recenters the history and theory of translocal political aspirations and cultural ideas from the usual Western vantage point to areas outside Europe, such as South Asia, China, and Africa. By examining new archives, proposing new theoretical formulations, and suggesting new possibilities of political practice, the contributors critically probe the concept of cosmopolitanism. On the one hand, cosmopolitanism may be taken to promise a form of supraregional political solidarity, but on the other, these essays argue, it may erode precisely those intimate cultural differences that derive their meaning from particular places and traditions. Given that most cosmopolitan political formations—from the Roman empire and European imperialism to contemporary globalization—have been coercive and unequal, can there be a noncoercive and egalitarian cosmopolitan politics? Finally, the volume asks whether cosmopolitanism can promise any universalism that is not the unwarranted generalization of some Western particular. Contributors. Ackbar Abbas, Arjun Appadurai, Homi K. Bhabha, T. K. Biaya, Carol A. Breckenridge, Dipesh Chakrabarty, Ousame Ndiaye Dago, Mamadou Diouf, Wu Hung, Walter D. Mignolo, Sheldon Pollock, Steven Randall |
| naipaul one out of many: Deep South Paul Theroux, 2015 Paul Theroux has spent fifty years crossing the globe, adventuring in the exotic, seeking the rich history and folklore of the far away. Now, for the first time, in his tenth travel book, Theroux explores a piece of America--the Deep South. He finds there a paradoxical place, full of incomparable music, unparalleled cuisine, and yet also some of the nation's worst schools, housing, and unemployment rates. It's these parts of the South, so often ignored, that have caught Theroux's keen traveler's eye.-- |
| naipaul one out of many: End of History and the Last Man Francis Fukuyama, 2006-03-01 Ever since its first publication in 1992, the New York Times bestselling The End of History and the Last Man has provoked controversy and debate. Profoundly realistic and important...supremely timely and cogent...the first book to fully fathom the depth and range of the changes now sweeping through the world. —The Washington Post Book World Francis Fukuyama's prescient analysis of religious fundamentalism, politics, scientific progress, ethical codes, and war is as essential for a world fighting fundamentalist terrorists as it was for the end of the Cold War. Now updated with a new afterword, The End of History and the Last Man is a modern classic. |
| naipaul one out of many: Naipaul's Truth Lillian Feder, 2001 Lillian feder illustrates how Naipaul has emerged as one of the world's greatest, and most controversial, living writers. |
| naipaul one out of many: Pacific Overtures Stephen Sondheim, John Weidman, 1991 Priceless and peerless...a thrilling work of theatricality. --Wayman Wong, San Francisco Examiner For over three decades, Stephen Sondheim has been the foremost composer and lyricist writing regularly for Broadway. His substantial body of work now stands as one of the most sustained achievements of the American stage. Pacific Overtures, originally produced in 1976, combines an unsurpassed mastery of the American musical with such arts as Kabuki theatre, haiku, dance, and masks to recount Commander Matthew Perry's 1835 opening of Japan and its consequences right up to the present. This new edition of Pacific Overtures incorporates substantial revisions made by the authors for the successful 1984 revival. |
| naipaul one out of many: The Overcrowded Barracoon Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 1984 V.S. Naipul describes his literary predicament as a West-Indian-born Indian writer, living in England, and reflects upon the social aspects of colonialism |
| naipaul one out of many: The Suffrage of Elvira Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, 1969 In this book, an old, comically timid and absent-minded man, Surujpat Harbans, runs for office, aided by superstition, bribes, and an aggressive compaign. |
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Cultural Hybridity and Ambivalent Identity in V.S. Naipaul’s Miguel …
Miguel Street stands as one of V.S. Naipaul's earliest literary works, comprising seventeen distinct stories ... ‘Hybridity’ as Ashcroft points out was “one of the most widely employed and most …
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Naipaul One Out Of Many Copy V. S. Naipaul The Writer and the World V. S. Naipaul,2012-03-22 During forty years of travel, V. S. Naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an …
Quest for Identity and Survival in V S Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Bisw
In the interview with Roland Bryden in Naipaul remarked, 1973, “all my works are really one I am really writing one big book. I come to the conclusion that, considering the nature of the society …
U. S. Naipaul: The White Traveler Under the Dark Mask
In this sense, one literary figure is chosen-by virtue of his links to the metropolitan arena, or by his writing in its language-to be a representa-tive of whole peoples and cultures. V. S. Naipaul has …
‘To lay claim to one’s portion of the earth’: Leaving ... - Rupkatha
through his precarious existence through life – pushed out of his ancestral house and for the next thirty-five years being buffeted by destiny from one house to another, as unwelcome intruder …
Social Marginality, Cultural Hybridity and Politics of Identity ...
V.S.Naipaul, one of the eminent Trinidadian novelists has produced a significant body of literature that has sustained the interest of not only literary critics but also social scientists and cultural …
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Naipaul One Out Of Many (Download Only) V. S. Naipaul In a Free State V. S. Naipaul,2020 One out of many -- Tell me who to kill -- In a free state. India: A Wounded Civilization V. S. …
Diaspora as Subaltern: A study of V.S Naipaul’s In a Free State …
The present paper through V.S Naipaul's In a Free State (1971) and Kiran Desai's, The Inheritance of Loss (2006) examines the portrayal of diasporic experiences and how they feel …
Identity Crisis in V.S. Naipaul’s A House for Mr. Biswas - DiVA portal
Naipaul describes A House for Mr. Biswas in his non-fiction book, Finding the Center, saying that it was “very much my father’s book. It was written out of his journalism and stories, out of his …
International Journal of Language and Literature - ResearchGate
Keywords: Homi Bhabha, V. S. Naipaul, One out of many, hybridity. 1. Introduction The Trinidad-born British writer, V. S. Naipaul (1932-)’s “One out of Many” is one of the short stories in his
Social Marginality, Cultural Hybridity and Politics of Identity ...
V.S.Naipaul, one of the eminent Trinidadian novelists has produced a significant body of literature that has sustained the interest of not only literary critics but also social scientists and cultural …
A STUDY OF POST-COLONIAL IDENTITY IN SELECT WORKS OF V.S. NAIPAUL …
V.S Naipaul is a quite scrupulous artist, well sensitive about the necessity of past in the literary realm. His standpoint is solely on the variegated kinds of identity issue. He authentically …
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Thematic Study in the works of V S Naipaul - ijrpr.com
The Theme - Legacy of colonialism in the novels of Naipaul V.S. Naipaul has knowledged colonialism and post-colonialism. His characters are very protagonistic and challengeable. He …
Progress Amid The East-Indians In V. S. Naipaul’s Selected Fiction
Naipaul’s first writing material started with the Caribbean. Trinidadian subjects engage an advantaged position, essential in Naipaul’s writings. In exploring ... – chaos (Isabella/Trinidad). …
INTITY RISIS IN V. S. NAIPAUL’S A HOUSE FOR MR. BISWAS
their identity. Madhusudahn Rao analyzes the themes of Naipaul in the following way. “V.S. Naipaul has used fiction not only as a way of chronicling life but also as an instrument of …
Heideggerian Out-of-Joint Situation and New Horizons in …
10 Sep 2018 · Key words: Extimacy, ‘Out of Joint’ Situation, Slavoj Zizek, Postcolonial Literature, V.S. Naipaul Introduction Many critics consider V.S. Naipaul to be one of the most signi cant …
Writing Is Not “Anti-African”: How Naipaul See(s) Much About Africa
Abstract—Many critics have harshly criticized V.S. Naipaul's works, ... unanimous with one opinion that Naipaul is not fare in his representation; he is out and out colonial, bestial, …
Naipaul's Written World - JSTOR
wanting. One has the sense, then, of Naipaul as a politically incorrect figure whose views on things political count more than does his art as a writer (though everybody says he "writes …
Area of Enigma: V.S. Naipaul and the East Indian Revival in …
In A Way in the World Naipaul details the year he worked as a second-class clerk in the Trinidad Registrar-General’s Department before he left the island on scholarship in August of 1950 (13). …
Disturbing Naipaul’s ‘Universal Civilization’: Islam, Travel …
Naipaul’s representation of Muslims and political Islam in Among the Believers (1981) and Beyond Belief (1999). The focus of my analysis is the relationship between Naipaul’s choice of …
CONSTRUCTION OF IDENTITY IN V. S. NAIPAUL’S THE …
They feel they are out of history. No doubt, one feels the happiest and most secure in the geography, culture, and society s/he is born into. As Gorra quotes from Isaiah Berlin, …
The Notion of Hybridity in V.S. Naipaul’s Novels:
Trinidad, one of the countries in the West Indies, was named after the holy Trinity, where many displaced East Indians live. Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, popularly known as V.S. Naipaul …
Postcolonial Vision In V.S Naipaul’s Half A Life And Magic Seeds
V.S. Naipaul is one of the greatest writers of our generation, having published ... carved out a place for himself in English-language world literature. In 1971, he was awarded the Booker …
Dual Affinity in V. S. Naipaul’s Half a Life - IOSR Journals
in affirmation or in denial i.e. a myth may be used as an ideal and point of reference or one may espouse the cause of a different ideology as a reaction to a particular myth. A pointed analysis …
Landscapes of the Mind: Unraveling Naipaul's The Enigma of
In many ways, Naipaul lives out his travelogues in this work. Enigma was reviewed by Rushdie soon after its ... It is one of Naipaul's habitual interludes of autobiographical confession and …
A New Look at V. S. Naipaul - JSTOR
information on Naipaul's private life, one can detect in his fiction Contemporary Literature XXXIII, 3 0010-7484/92/0003-0573 $1.50 ... Moreover, Kelly points out, it was from the career of V. S. …
A New Look at V. S. Naipaul - JSTOR
information on Naipaul's private life, one can detect in his fiction Contemporary Literature XXXIII, 3 0010-7484/92/0003-0573 $1.50 ... Moreover, Kelly points out, it was from the career of V. S. …
Diplomsko delo HISTORY, AUTOBIOGRAPHY & THE POST- COLONIAL …
and one which Naipaul explores in the case of an individual. Like Naipaul, this individual has ... Of course he didn’t carry out all the deeds of his characters, but he can write down things, that he …
V.S. NAIPAUL AND THE COLONIAL SITUATION - McGill …
wh~te domination have been the conceDn of many native writers~ Among this group, V.S. Naipaul is one of the most pro1ific. Desp;te Naipaul'.s deliberate detachmenj: from natioq,alist …
V.S. Naipaul. Bruce King. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1993. viii ...
King's V.S. Naipaul , one among the more recent additions to the growing output on Naipaul' s oeuvre, seeks to read Naipaul as belonging neither to ... [that] is out of fashion at present" (p. …
THE STRUCTURAL APPRAISAL OF V. S. NAIPAUL'S
apply to Naipaul's literary preoccupations and interests. One major thematic strand runs through all the novels of Naipaul, whether set in the West Indies or elsewhere, they are satirical …
Literature Review of V. S. Naipaul’s Works - Atlantis Press
Many critics explore Naipaul’s life experience and his works mainly from the post-colonial perspective. In 2003, Bruce King’s second edition of . V.S. Naipaul. came out. Inspired by his …
by V. S. Naipaul - JSTOR
permit him to create a "home" out of the insect-like conditions he has been born into. His quandary, his "case", extends beyond himself, and beyond Trinidad, though Mr. Naipaul has …
V. S. NAIPAUL’S AMBIVALENT ATTITUDE TOWARDS BRITISH …
Surajprasad Naipaul (b. 1932) is one of the prominent sub-colonial writers of English literature. With the scholarship from the British government, Naipaul begins to climb the ladder of English …
V.S. NAIPAUL: AN AREA OF DARKNESS: SHIVA HAS …
Quoting from one of Naipaul’s speeches, Ajay K. Chaubey stresses the ultimate importance of identity for a writer – traveller, narrator and “gatherer ... Indian culture and morality are carried …
V.S. NAIPAUL: EAST INDIAN–WEST INDIAN - Universidad de …
While no one questioned Naipaul’s brilliance when he turned global, many were shocked and offended by the tone he adopted to write about the material and moral plight of the world’s …
MAPPING THE ROAD TO IDENTITY IN VS. NAIPAUL’S MAGIC …
character in VS. Naipaul’s novel Magic Seeds. The paper focuses on the map metaphor seen as symbolic for one’s journey to find one’s identity. The literary analysis demonstrates that the …
Dimensions of Diaspora: A Study of V. S. Naipaul’s Select Fictions
Naipaul remembers in his Nobel Lecture that as a child he had been given ideas of the Indian epics, the Ramayana in particular. He had also seen how ... In a diaspora predicament one …
Naipaul’s - JETIR
Naipaul’s own. Many of his writings are inextricably merged with his personal experiences. Though ... Though his struggle is a long one, but he is successful. Happiness for him ... move …
On V. S. Naipaul’ s Spatial Writing - Taylor & Francis Online
Moreover, it maps out the basic modes of thinking, research methods and original ideas of the whole dissertation. Chapter One deals with the writer's life and writing. It is made up of three …
Nostalgia through Diasporic Perception in V.S Naipaul’s A House …
years and are still felt today. Naipaul has also, in his many interviews and essays, made his own myth into that of the writer as a displaced person. One who does not have a side, doesn‟t …
Research Center Department of English Tilak Maharashtra …
Sir Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul is a Trinidadian writer. He was born in 1932 and died in 2018. He completed his education in London. Naipaul is one of the most distinctive Caribbean …
The Tragedy of V.S. Naipaul's Miguel Street - Semantic Scholar
Miguel Street (1959) is one of Naipaul’s outstanding novels and is a semi-autobiographical novel set in Port of Spain, Trinidad. The locations in the novel are of crucial importance—Trinidad …
Identity crisis in the V.S.Naipaul’s novel ‘A house for
Naipaul’s works consist mainly of novels and short stories.A House for Mr. Biswas tells the story of its protagonist, Mr. Biswas from birth to death, each section dealing with different phases of …
Representation of London as the Centre of Power, Hopes and
In this respect, one can realize the similarity between Ralph’s background and Naipaul’s biography in terms of their colonial experience and identity problem. Hence, as Thorpe (1976, …
NAIPAUL AND LIFE WRITING - Universitatea "Constantin …
naipaul and life writing, is an approach to naipaul’s non-fiction work, which connects his writing – other than the indian trilogy – to his nonfiction. the purpose of this chapter is multifaceted: to …
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Unhomeliness and Hybridity in V. S. Naipaul’s Half a Life and …
whether Naipaul sustains his divisional vision of place in the two recent novels. Bhabha’s (1994) widely used notions of unhomeliness and hybridity have been welcomed and critically …
