The writer and the world : essays / V.S. Naipaul ; introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-2018.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

xv, 524 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.

Summary:

For 40 years, Naipaul has been traveling and, through his writing, creating one of the most wide-ranging and sustained meditations on the world. Now, for the first time, his finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage--nearly all of them heretofore out of print--are collected in one volume.

Contents:

India. In the middle of the journey ; Jamshed into jimmy ; A second visit ; The election in Ajmer

Africa and the diaspora. Papa and the power set ; The shipwrecked six thousand ; The ultimate colony ; The overcrowded Barracoon ; Power? ; Michael X and the Black power killings in Trinidad: peace and power ; A new king for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa ; The crocodiles of Yamoussoukro ; Columbus and Crusoe

American occasions. Jacques Soustelle and the decline of the West ; New York with Norman Mailer ; Steinbeck in Monterey ; Argentina and the ghost of Eva Person, 1972-1991 ; The air-conditioned bubble: the republican in Dallas ; Heavy manners in Gerenada ; A handful of dust: Cheddi Jagan and the revolution in Guyana.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0375407391

OCLC:

48494021