V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018)
Autor(a) de A House for Mr Biswas
About the Author
Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born of Indian ancestry in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, 1932. He was educated at University College, Oxford and lived in Great Britain since 1950. From 1954 to 1956, he edited a radio program on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Caribbean mostrar mais Service. His first novel, The Mystic Masseur, was published in 1957. His other novels included A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, Guerrillas, and Half a Life. In a Free State won the Booker Prize in 1971. He started writing nonfiction in the 1960s. His first nonfiction book, The Middle Passage, was published in 1962. His other nonfiction works included An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, and A Turn in the South. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died on August 11, 2018 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras por V. S. Naipaul
Oeuvres romanesques choisies : Dans un état libre, Guérilleros, A la courbe du fleuve, L'Enigme de… (2009) 4 exemplares
Sem título 2 exemplares
B. Wordsworth 1 exemplar
Sem título 1 exemplar
THE MIMIC MAN 1 exemplar
A House for Mr. Biswas Glencoe Study Guide 1 exemplar
The Writer and the World 1 exemplar
Semillas mágicas (Spanish Edition) 1 exemplar
QYTETI BRI LUMIT 1 exemplar
A Curva do Rio 1 exemplar
An Area of Darkness - An Experience of India 1 exemplar
Blant de troende 1 exemplar
Fedeli a oltranza. Un viaggio tra i popoli convertiti all'Islam. Traduzione di Davide Carucci, Ubaldo Stecconi,… (2001) 1 exemplar
Bim 1 exemplar
In a Free State: One Out of Many; Tell Me Who to Kill; in a Free State (Penguin Twentieth Century Classics) (2001) 1 exemplar
The painter of signs 1 exemplar
V ohybu řeky 1 exemplar
Rare Antique 1st Edition Among The Believers V.S. Naipaul Islam History Nobel Prize Muslim 1 exemplar
La fin du roman 1 exemplar
The Middle Passage. Impressions of Five Societies-- British, French and Dutch-- in the West Indies and South America (1962) 1 exemplar
“One Out of Many” 1 exemplar
Half A Life 1 exemplar
Associated Works
The Oxford Book of Caribbean Short Stories: Reissue (Oxford Books of Prose) (1999) — Contribuidor — 92 exemplares
Fotspår : noveller ur Sveriges radio P1:s serie Författarskap på fötter (2003) — Contribuidor — 4 exemplares
Etiquetado
Conhecimento Comum
- Nome legal
- Naipaul, Vidiadhar Surajprasad
- Data de nascimento
- 1932-08-17
- Data de falecimento
- 2018-08-11
- Localização do túmulo
- Kensal Green Cemetery, London, England, UK
- Sexo
- male
- Nacionalidade
- England
UK - Local de nascimento
- Chaguanas, Trinidad and Tobago
- Local de falecimento
- London, England, UK
- Locais de residência
- London, England, UK
- Educação
- Oxford University (University College|BA|1953)
- Ocupações
- novelist
travel writer
essayist - Relações
- Naipaul, Shiva (broer)
- Organizações
- Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1981)
Fellow, Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland
Society of Authors (1956) - Prémios e menções honrosas
- Booker Prize (1971)
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (2001) - Agente
- Gillon Aitken Associates Ltd
William Loverd
Membros
Discussions
British Author Challenge May 2021: Na'ima B. Robert & V. S. Naipaul em 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (Dezembro 2021)
May 2014: V. S. Naipaul em Monthly Author Reads (Setembro 2018)
V. S. Naipaul 1932 - 2018 em 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2018)
Críticas
An Area of Darkness: A Discovery of India por V. S. Naipaul
you can't go home again, even if it was just your imagined home.
I think you can either love or hate this collection of early Naipaul stories. For me - I loved them, although the novella in the second half of the book had me confused at first because there was such a strong change in the narrative thrust compared to in the stories... though this resolved itself after the second part of the story explained who the characters were.
I wish I could write one tenth as well as Naipaul does here... and these are just his early stories. The man's a genius.
I wish I could write one tenth as well as Naipaul does here... and these are just his early stories. The man's a genius.
Less than 200 pages but it is very hard to understand. Usually, Naipaul likes to analyse a country by traveling but he was circumscribed on this trip. Hence, much of the analysis was through his reading and interpretation of novels about India, and politicians' actions and words. His point is India's intellectual paucity, a country stagnating in its rituals and caste system. An unpleasant book to read if you are Indian but intriguing for other readers, that is if you are unable to understand it.
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/the-return-of-eva-peron-with-the-killings-in-tri...
It consists of four essays from the Nobel Laureate; it is notable that although the first and the longest of the pieces is about Trinidad, it is Eva Perón who is given top billing in the book’s title and cover. It’s an important book and I will describe each of the four essays briefly.
“Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad”:
I was not familiar with this grim story: Michael X, a political activist and effectively a cult leader who had ended up back in his native Trinidad after developing his activist career in London, had two of his followers brutally killed in 1971, and was eventually arrested, convicted and executed for the crimes. Naipaul goes into the rhetoric of Michael X’s particular version of Black Power in detail, which helps us understand why his followers (and others including John Lennon) took him so seriously. Naipaul doesn’t make the connection with Charles Manson, but I must say that I also saw similarities with other homicidal cult leaders before and since.
“The Return of Eva Perón”:
This is a lyrical and detailed essay about the extraordinary story of Juan and Eva Perón, and how Argentina (and Uruguay) descended into economic and political hell despite being blessed with natural resources and reasonably skilled populations. From the mid-1970s, when Naipaul was writing, it did all look pretty awful; now things look a bit better, but still fragile. He makes the point that Eva Perón would only have been in her fifties, and presumably still dominating the country’s politics, if she still been alive in 1977. He pulls in fellow writer Jorge Luis Borges for some interesting and disturbing observations.
The last two essays are both about the country then known as Zaire and now as the Democratic Republic of Congo. The first, “A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa”, is about the Mobutu regime, which had then been in power for over a decade and had another twenty years to go. The Mobutu regime eventually collapsed in a war that drew in all nine of the neighbouring countries at one time or another, and in the meantime other African regimes had followed it down the path of brutality and corruption. Naipaul’s analysis of the weaponisation of the cult of personality and the meagre but sufficient resources of state power is brief and forensic.
The final essay, “Conrad’s Darkness”, looks at Conrad’s work as a whole, but at Heart of Darkness in particular. Naipaul spent a lot more time thinking about Conrad than I have, but comes out in the same place: Heart of Darkness is a masterpiece and the rest of his work is remarkably good.… (mais)
It consists of four essays from the Nobel Laureate; it is notable that although the first and the longest of the pieces is about Trinidad, it is Eva Perón who is given top billing in the book’s title and cover. It’s an important book and I will describe each of the four essays briefly.
“Michael X and the Black Power Killings in Trinidad”:
I was not familiar with this grim story: Michael X, a political activist and effectively a cult leader who had ended up back in his native Trinidad after developing his activist career in London, had two of his followers brutally killed in 1971, and was eventually arrested, convicted and executed for the crimes. Naipaul goes into the rhetoric of Michael X’s particular version of Black Power in detail, which helps us understand why his followers (and others including John Lennon) took him so seriously. Naipaul doesn’t make the connection with Charles Manson, but I must say that I also saw similarities with other homicidal cult leaders before and since.
“The Return of Eva Perón”:
This is a lyrical and detailed essay about the extraordinary story of Juan and Eva Perón, and how Argentina (and Uruguay) descended into economic and political hell despite being blessed with natural resources and reasonably skilled populations. From the mid-1970s, when Naipaul was writing, it did all look pretty awful; now things look a bit better, but still fragile. He makes the point that Eva Perón would only have been in her fifties, and presumably still dominating the country’s politics, if she still been alive in 1977. He pulls in fellow writer Jorge Luis Borges for some interesting and disturbing observations.
The last two essays are both about the country then known as Zaire and now as the Democratic Republic of Congo. The first, “A New King for the Congo: Mobutu and the Nihilism of Africa”, is about the Mobutu regime, which had then been in power for over a decade and had another twenty years to go. The Mobutu regime eventually collapsed in a war that drew in all nine of the neighbouring countries at one time or another, and in the meantime other African regimes had followed it down the path of brutality and corruption. Naipaul’s analysis of the weaponisation of the cult of personality and the meagre but sufficient resources of state power is brief and forensic.
The final essay, “Conrad’s Darkness”, looks at Conrad’s work as a whole, but at Heart of Darkness in particular. Naipaul spent a lot more time thinking about Conrad than I have, but comes out in the same place: Heart of Darkness is a masterpiece and the rest of his work is remarkably good.… (mais)
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