V.S. Naipaul - Softcover

King, Bruce

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1403904561 ISBN 13: 9781403904560

Publisher: Red Globe Press, 2003

Synopsis

This revised and updated introduction to the novels and non-fiction of V. S. Naipaul will be of interest to students, specialists and general readers. Chronological chapters examine the structure, significance and development of Naipaul's writing, setting

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From the Back Cover:

V. S. Naipaul is a reader-friendly introduction to the writing of one of the most influential contemporary authors and the 2001 Nobel laureate in Literature. Bruce King provides a novel by novel analysis of the fiction with attention to structure, significance, and Naipaul's development as a writer, while setting the texts in their autobiographical. philosophical, social, political, colonial and postcolonial contexts. King shows how Naipaul modified Western and Indian literary traditions for the West Indies and then the wider world to become an international writer whose subject matter includes the Caribbean, England, India, Africa, the United States, Argentina, and contemporary Islam.

Thoroughly revised and updated, the second edition of V. S. Naipaul now includes an expanded Introduction, and discussion of his most recent novels A Way in the World and Half a Life, his Nobel Lecture, Naipaul's writings on Islam, and a survey of the main criticism by other writers and postcolonial theorists.

About the Author:

Bruce King is a freelance writer and a leading international literary critic and is series editor for English Dramatists and Modern Dramatists (both Palgrave Macmillan).

About this edition

• Publisher: Red Globe Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1403904561
• ISBN 13: 9781403904560
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 230