The Enigma of V S Naipaul : Sources and Contexts
Helen. Hayward
Bok Engelsk 2003 · Electronic books.
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| Utgitt | Basingstoke : : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2003.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (224 p.)
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| Opplysninger | Description based upon print version of record.. - Cover; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Chronology; Contents; Introduction; 1 Sons and brothers: family and textual relations in Naipaul's early Trinidadian fiction; 2 The Enigma of Arrival: autobiography and revision; 3 History and repetition in A Way in the World and The Loss of El Dorado; 4 Naipaul's changing representation of India: autobiographical and literary backgrounds; 5 Fact and fiction in Guerrilas; 6 Images of Africa and Europe in A Bend in the River; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index. - The Nobel Prize-winning writer, V S Naipaul has claimed, 'All my work is really one. I'm writing one big book'. Taking him at his word, Helen Hayward sought to find in her perceptive, well-researched and objective study of the artist, the recurring themes that run through his novels, travel books short stories, articles and interviews over forty years.She first explores his troubled relationships with his writer-father, Seepersad Naipaul, then his curiously ambivalent attitudes towards his adopted England, the Caribbean, India, the Islamic world, and Africa. What emerges is a writer whose
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| ISBN | 1403902542. - 1403902933
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