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Hace 5 días · Paul Theroux y V. S. Naipaul volvieron a cruzarse en un festival literario quince años después de su ruptura. Theroux pidió a Ian McEwan que oficiara de intermediario para un posible acercamiento. Naipaul no tuvo problemas. Se dieron un abrazo, sonrieron, intercambiaron algunas palabras.
Hace 2 días · These encounters with the contradictions of bourgeois revolution in the colonies (Partha Chatterjee) are also a motif in postcolonial reflections on the failures of decolonization (V. S. Naipaul, Ayi Kwei Armah, and Ama Ata Aidoo).
Hace 13 horas · I once wrote a book, “Sir Vidia’s Shadow,” on my friendship with the writer V.S. Naipaul, whom I have described as a drill sergeant who, if he had seen “Full Metal Jacket,” would most ...
Hace 2 días · 26 N. Jabavu, review of a novel by V. S. Naipaul, "The Middle Passage," New York Times Book Review Suppl., September 22, 1963. 27 27 For an interesting but too brief comparison between this work, Ingqumbo Yeminyanya (The Wrath of the Ancestors) and Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe, see Mphahlele, pp. 200-203. 28
Hace 22 horas · I once wrote a book, “Sir Vidia’s Shadow,” on my friendship with the writer V.S. Naipaul, whom I have described as a drill sergeant who, if he had seen “Full Metal Jacket,” would most likely have shouted, “What is your major malfunction, numb-nuts!” He often prefaced his reading of my stuff with, “I must warn you — I’m ...
Hace 4 días · Well-known recipients of the prize include V.S. Naipaul, Nadine Gordimer, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, Iris Murdoch, J.M. Coetzee, A.S. Byatt, Kingsley Amis, Penelope Lively, Ben Okri, Michael Ondaatje, Ian McEwan, Peter Carey, Kiran Desai, and Hilary Mantel.
Hace 4 días · V.S Naipaul’s 1961 novel, A House for Mr. Biswas, describes the slightly unfortunate Mohun Biswas whose desire to find independence in a home measures up to his search for personal identity and a root.Biswas’ predicament is hinged on the current subject of our issue. Through our theme of “Return,” we are attempting to argue for a reshuffling, reappraisal and reworking of the ideas ...
