Reading and Writing
A Personal Account
I was eleven, no more, when the wish came to me to be a writer; and then very soon it was a settled ambition. But for the young V. S. Naipaul, there was a great distance between the wish and its fulfillment. To become a writer, he would have to find ways of understanding three very different cultures: his family's half-remembered Indian homeland, the West Indian colonial society in which he grew up, and the wholly foreign world of the English novels he read.In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking th…
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- ISBN: 978-0-940322-38-7
- EAN: 9780940322387
- Produktnummer: 20614710
- Verlag: Random House N.Y.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2000
- Seitenangabe: 64 S.
- Masse: H21.3 cm x B14.7 cm x D1.5 cm 270 g
- Gewicht: 270
Über den Autor
V. S. Naipaul (1932-2018) was born in Trinidad and emigrated to England in 1950, when he won a scholarship to University College, Oxford. He was the author of many novels, including A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, and In a Free State, which won the Booker Prize. He has also written several nonfiction works based on his travels, including India: A Million Mutinies Now and Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions Among the Converted Peoples. He was knighted in 1990 and in 1993 was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize.
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