Full name: The Writer and the World: Essays

Author: V. S. Naipaul Year: 2002 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Writing, Essays, Non Fiction, Travel, History Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780375707308 0375707301

Spanning four decades and four continents, this magisterial volume brings together the essential shorter works of reflection and reportage by our most sensitive, literate, and undeceivable observer of the post-colonial world. In its pages V. S. Naipaul trains his relentless moral intelligence on societies from India to the United States and sees how each deals with the challenges of modernity and the seductions of both the real and mythical past. Whether he is writing about a string of racial murders in Trinidad; the mad, corrupt reign of Mobutu in Zaire; Argentina under the generals; or Dallas during the 1984 Republican Convention, Naipaul combines intellectual playfulness with sorrow, indignation, and analysis so far-reaching that it approaches prophecy. The Writer and the World reminds us that he is in a class by himself. Similar books: Facing Unpleasant Facts by George Orwell Tremendous Trifles by G. K. Chesterton Against Everything by Mark Greif The Size of Thoughts by Nicholson Baker The Rub of Time by Martin Amis The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio In Favor of the Sensitive Man by Anais Nin On Looking by Lia Purpura At the Same Time by Susan Sontag When I Was a Child I Read Books by Marilynne Robinson Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell Vintage Didion by Joan Didion Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe The Middle Passage by V. S. Naipaul An Area of Darkness by V. S. Naipaul Fugitives and Refugees by Chuck Palahniuk Cafe Europa by Slavenka Drakulic The Flaneur by Edmund White