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Item Details
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LITERARY OCCASIONS
ESSAYS |
| By: |
V. S. Naipaul |
| Format: |
Electronic book text |
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£6.98 |
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| ISBN 10: |
033052934X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780330529341 |
| Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN (DIGITAL) |
| Pub. date: |
22 March, 2012 |
| Pages: |
224 |
| Description: |
From a master of the English language comes this astonishing collection of essays about reading, writing, and identity. |
| Synopsis: |
In these eleven extended pieces V. S. Naipaul charts more than half a century of personal enquiry into the mysteries of the written word and of fiction in particular. Here are his boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; observations on Conrad, his literary forebear; the moving preface he wrote to the only book his father ever published; and his reflections on his career, ending with his celebrated Nobel lecture, 'Two Worlds'. A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul's previous volume of highly acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.'An engaging guide to the writing life, full of interest for the would-be novelist' Independent 'He is an exceptionally good and perceptive critic - a few passages on Dickens are worth whole books by others - and when he addresses the art of fiction he not only writes beautifully (as always) but with complete humility' New Statesman 'The writing itself is a wonder of clarity, complex ideas given shape in simple English, and achieving that most difficult of tasks - having writer and reader seem simultaneously to be making the same journey' New York Times Book Review |
| Reader Age: |
From 16 |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Picador |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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