Reading & Writing : A Personal Account by V. S. Naipaul

Book Description
In this essay of literary autobiography, V.S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in Oxford, and his struggles as a young, poor and inexperienced writer in London. He describes his responses to his family's native India, particularly his horror at the poverty and misery that he encountered on his first visit. He modestly reflects on the different possibilities that he found in the novel and the travel book for capturing the truth of his subjects and considers what makes a work piece of literature. He offers us a remarkably vivid account of the experiences and literature that shaped his imagination and allowed him to make his childhood fantasy of becoming a writer of fiction a reality.
About the Author
Born and educated in Trinidad, V.S. Naipaul (b. 1932) settled in England after winning a scholarship to Oxford. The author of numerous successful novels including A House for Mr. Biswas and A Bend in the River, he was awarded the Booker Prize for In a Free State, which explores the problems of nationality and personal identity. Political violence, homelessness, and alienation are recurrent themes in his novels. Naipaul's non fiction includes an Indian travel anthology and several political essays.

 

 


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