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Item Details
Title:
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LITERARY OCCASIONS
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By: |
V. S. Naipaul |
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Paperback |
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£8.99 |
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ISBN 10: |
0330420232 |
ISBN 13: |
9780330420235 |
Publisher: |
PAN MACMILLAN |
Pub. date: |
1 December, 2004 |
Pages: |
224 |
Description: |
From a master of the English language, and winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature a collection of essays about reading, writing, and identity. |
Synopsis: |
Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul's 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; Naipaul's 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. |
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UK |
Imprint: |
Picador |
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Returnable |
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