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The Writer and the World: Essays

The Writer and the World: Essays

Naipaul, V. S.

Paperback

Letters & EssaysGeneral Political ScienceGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0375707301
ISBN13: 9780375707308
Publisher: Vintage
Published: Sep 9 2003
Pages: 544
Weight: 0.84
Height: 1.10 Width: 5.20 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
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.

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