Vidiadhar S. Naipaul

Guerrillas

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A novel of colonialism and revolution, death, sexual violence and political and spiritual impotence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Import / Vintage, New York
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. September 1990
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 202mm x 131mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 214g
• ISBN-13: 9780679731740
• ISBN-10: 0679731741
• Artikelnr.: 22058702

Autorenporträt

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 for services to literature; in 1993, he was the first recipient of the David Cohen British Literature Prize. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died in 2018.

Rezensionen

Impeccable . . . Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair. Observer