NAIPAUL, V.S.: Mimic Men (The) (Unabridged)

Format:

Sound recording

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Naxos Digital Services US.

Series:

Naxos Spoken Word Library.

Naxos Spoken Word Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Spoken Word.

Local Subjects:

Spoken Word.

Genre:

Video recordings.

Sound recordings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Place of Publication:

Hong Kong : Naxos Digital Services US Incorporated, 2017.

System Details:

Mode of access: Available online.

Contents:

The Mimic Men ( 09 min., 45 sec. )

There are many of us around living modestly... ( 12 min., 15 sec. )

The priest hallowed the baby with his saliva... ( 11 min., 51 sec. )

2: How right our aryan ancestors were... ( 12 min., 59 sec. )

Will I be believed if I say that on four successive... ( 11 min., 38 sec. )

Everyone reduced, reciprocally, to a succession... ( 11 min., 31 sec. )

3: In that period of my life which was to follow... ( 11 min., 58 sec. )

So the legitimate desire for succession... ( 11 min., 04 sec. )

4: In the active period of my life... ( 11 min., 14 sec. )

But how could I resist her quick delight? ( 12 min., 49 sec. )

I have spoken of the mood of celebration... ( 11 min., 30 sec. )

5: The sanctions my mother had invoked... ( 12 min., 43 sec. )

A man, passionate for security, works and saves... ( 10 min., 39 sec. )

So we were set apart. And a little above. ( 11 min., 28 sec. )

What makes a marriage? What makes a house...? ( 11 min., 04 sec. )

I should have slapped her on that mouth... ( 09 min. )

6: It only remained now for Sandra to leave. ( 10 min., 49 sec. )

7: My first instinct was towards the writing... ( 02 min., 01 sec. )

2-1: On Isabella when I was a child... ( 09 min., 11 sec. )

It was one of a series of Missionary Martyrs... ( 08 min., 31 sec. )

For Cecil childhood was the great time. ( 09 min., 16 sec. )

'Singh, does this certificate belong to you?' ( 08 min., 41 sec. )

The last book he had been reading... ( 08 min., 50 sec. )

2: Cecil sometimes came home with me... ( 10 min., 27 sec. )

But there was an awkwardness. My sisters and I... ( 11 min., 31 sec. )

The arc of the cork floats steadily contracted. ( 12 min., 48 sec. )

The women liked the running shorts, the exposed... ( 09 min., 37 sec. )

3: My father became the possessor... ( 09 min. )

The sight of the straight empty road... ( 10 min., 43 sec. )

Success is success; once it occurs it explains itself. ( 11 min., 27 sec. )

He got his laughs and stared mischievously at me. ( 10 min., 18 sec. )

'I am not going to touch Isabella Rum...' ( 10 min., 55 sec. )

He permitted himself no levity... ( 08 min., 39 sec. )

4: I was relieved when the war came... ( 09 min., 38 sec. )

I had been able at certain moments... ( 09 min. )

The tiny room was suddenly alive. ( 08 min., 55 sec. )

5: The house of my mother's family was solid. ( 12 min., 38 sec. )

He called this Negro Cecil. ( 10 min., 39 sec. )

Poor Gurudeva! The tears were tears... ( 09 min., 35 sec. )

6: Just after the end of the war Cecil's father died. ( 12 min., 02 sec. )

'Good; you know them. But it isn't the same.' ( 11 min., 03 sec. )

One journey had to be made before I left. ( 10 min., 24 sec. )

7: I wished then to go back as whole as I had come. ( 01 min., 46 sec. )

3-1: As I write, my own view of my actions alters. ( 11 min., 23 sec. )

My mood might explain the excitement I felt... ( 11 min., 01 sec. )

2: It has happened in twenty places... ( 09 min., 32 sec. )

I couldn't be sure where Browne stood in this. ( 08 min., 32 sec. )

3: The election was at hand. ( 10 min., 44 sec. )

So the Roman house died a second time. ( 10 min., 26 sec. )

4: The child, driving with his grandfather... ( 07 min., 55 sec. )

His speeches altered, though to the public... ( 07 min., 14 sec. )

5: So we brought drama of a sort to the island. ( 09 min., 29 sec. )

So there we were. Another message... ( 08 min., 27 sec. )

6: Relief: I was astonished by the mood... ( 09 min., 51 sec. )

The taxi-driver was not devious. ( 09 min., 22 sec. )

'Naturally. I will tell you something else about him.' ( 08 min., 10 sec. )

7: It was time to leave. But there was no need... ( 14 min., 07 sec. )

8: My arrival was quiet. I was not expected. ( 10 min., 52 sec. )

9: I thought when I began this book... ( 12 min., 01 sec. )

We have our incidents. But we also have... ( 11 minutes, 53 sec. )

Participant:

Dastor, Sam, Reader -- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad, Author

Notes:

Naxos Digital Services electronic collection.

Streaming audio.

Publisher Number:

9781781980811

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.