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During forty years of travel, v s naipaul has created a wide-ranging body of work, an exceptional and sustained meditation on our world now his finest pieces of reflection and reportage - many of which have been unavailable for some time - are collected in one volume with an abiding faith in modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples through the prism of his experience whether writing about indian mutinies and despair, mobutu's mad reign in zaire, or the new york mayoral elections, he demonstrates time and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the ways in which the world works infused with a deeply felt humanism, the writer and the world attests powerfully not only to naipaul's status as the great english prose stylist of our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding all [of these essays] are worth reading (and rereading), both for the contemporary and historical information and insight they artfully impart and for what they tell us about a uniquely complex writer' spectator how few writers there are, if any, who share his sense of mission and moral authority, who have his willingness to learn and to travel and his miraculous gift of language' observer
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For forty years V. S. Naipaul has been traveling and, through his writing, creating one of the most wide-ranging and sustained meditations on our 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.
With an abiding faith in the redemptive power of modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples through the many-sided prism of his own experience. Whether writing about the Muslim invasions of India, Mobutu?s mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections, he has demonstrated again and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the ways in which power works, of the universal relation of the exploiter and the exploited. And no one has put forth a more consistently eloquent defense of the dignity of the individual and the value of civilization.
Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The Writer and the World attests powerfully not only to Naipaul?s status as the great English prose stylist of our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding.
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With an abiding faith in the redemptive power of modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples through the many-sided prism of his own experience. Whether writing about the Muslim invasions of India, Mobutu?s mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections, he has demonstrated again and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the ways in which power works, of the universal relation of the exploiter and the exploited. And no one has put forth a more consistently eloquent defense of the dignity of the individual and the value of civilization.
Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The Writer and the World attests powerfully not only to Naipaul?s status as the great English prose stylist of our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding.
“Naipaul is Conrad’s heir as the annalist of the destinies of empires in the moral sense: what they do to human beings. His authority as a narrator is grounded in his memory of what others have forgotten, the history of the vanquished.” -- The Nobel Prize Citation
“His memoirs and travel books are a testament to his ruthless truth-telling about the collision of cultures.” -- The Globe and Mail
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“His memoirs and travel books are a testament to his ruthless truth-telling about the collision of cultures.” -- The Globe and Mail
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