Overview
Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by the Nobel Prize-winning author.“The most splendid writer…. He looks into the mad eye of history and does not blink.” —The Boston Globe
V.S. Naipaul is our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In these pages, he 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.
The book, The Writer and the World: Essays [Bulk, Wholesale, Quantity] ISBN#9780375707308 in Paperback by V. S. Naipaul may be ordered in bulk quantities. Minimum starts at 25 copies. Availability based on publisher status and quantity being ordered.
Details
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
09/09/2003
ISBN-10:
0375707301
ISBN-13:
9780375707308
Pages:
544
Publisher:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
