Literary Occasions: Essays
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- Synopsis
- Eleven essays on reading, writing, and identity—which have been brought together for the first time—from the Nobel Prize-winning author. • &“He brings to [nonfiction] an extraordinary capacity for making art out of lucid thought…. I can no longer imagine the world without Naipaul&’s writing.&” —Vivian Gornick, Los Angeles Times Book ReviewHere the subject is Naipaul&’s literary evolution: the books that delighted him as a child; the books he wrote as a young man; the omnipresent predicament of trying to master an essentially metropolitan, imperial art form as an Asian colonial from a New World plantation island. He assesses Joseph Conrad, the writer most frequently cited as his forebear, and, in his celebrated Nobel Lecture, &“Two Worlds,&” traces the full arc of his own career. Literary Occasions is an indispensable addition to the Naipaul oeuvre, penetrating, elegant, and affecting.
- Copyright:
- 2003
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Publisher Quality
- Book Size:
- 224 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780307557469
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781400031306
- Publisher:
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Date of Addition:
- 09/20/23
- Copyrighted By:
- V. S. Naipaul
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Literature and Fiction, Language Arts
- Reading Age:
- 18–16
- Submitted By:
- Bookshare Staff
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.