Literary Occasions
A rich collection of essays on reading, writing, and identity from our finest writer in English, V. S. Naipaul. Literary Occasions charts more than half a century of personal enquiry into the mysteries of written expression, and of fiction in particular.
Literary Occasions brings together some true gems of literary criticism and personal reflection. Reflecting on the full scope of his career, V. S. Naipaul takes us through his beginnings as a writer: his boyhood experiences of reading books and his first efforts at writing them; the early glimmers and evolution of ideas about the proper relations of particular literary forms to particular cultures and identities; and his father’s influence, revealed in an intriguing preface to the only book he ever…
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V.S. NAIPAUL was born in Trinidad in 1932. He came to England on a scholarship in 1950. He spent four years at University College, Oxford, and began to write, in London, in 1954. He pursued no other profession.
His novels include A House for Mr Biswas, The Mimic Men, Guerrillas, A Bend in the River, and The Enigma of Arrival. In 1971 he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State. His works of nonfiction, equally acclaimed, include Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, The Masque of Africa, and a trio of books about India: An Area of Darkness, India: A Wounded Civilization and India: A Million Mutinies Now.
In 1990, V.S. Naipaul received a knighthood…
A Bend in the River
V. S. Naipaul; Introduction by Patrick Marnham
Literary Occasions
V. S. Naipaul
Magic Seeds
V.S. Naipaul
The Masque of Africa
V. S. Naipaul
A Way in the World
V.S. Naipaul
Between Father and Son
V.S. Naipaul
Beyond Belief
V. S. Naipaul
India: A Million Mutinies Now
V.S. Naipaul
Collected Short Fiction of V. S. Naipaul
V. S. Naipaul
A Writer's People
V.S. Naipaul
The Writer and the World
V.S. Naipaul
India: A Wounded Civilization
V.S. Naipaul
The Loss of El Dorado
V.S. Naipaul