The Middle Passage
Autor V.S. NAIPAULen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 dec 2001
In The Middle Passage, Naipaul watches a Trinidadian movie audience greeting Humphrey Bogart’s appearance with cries of “That is man!” He ventures into a Trinidad slum so insalubrious that the locals call it the Gaza Strip. He follows a racially charged election campaign in British Guiana (now Guyana) and marvels at the Gallic pretension of Martinique society, which maintains the fiction that its roads are extensions of France’s routes nationales. And throughout he relates the ghastly episodes of the region’s colonial past and shows how they continue to inform its language, politics, and values. The result is a work of novelistic vividness and dazzling perspicacity that displays Naipaul at the peak of his powers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780375708343
ISBN-10: 0375708340
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books.
Editura: Vintage Publishing
ISBN-10: 0375708340
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 132 x 203 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.23 kg
Ediția:Vintage Books.
Editura: Vintage Publishing
Notă biografică
V. S. Naipaul lives in Wiltshire, England.
Recenzii
“The coolest literary eye and the most lucid prose we have.”–The New York Times Book Review
“Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain.” –New Statesman
“Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.” –Evelyn Waugh
“Where earlier travelers enthused or recoiled, Mr. Naipaul explains. His tone is critical but humane, and he tempers his inevitable indignation with an admirable sense of comedy.” –The Observer
“Dazzling reportorial skills and a sharp historical mind.” –The New York Times
“Belongs in the same category of travel writing as Lawrence’s books on Italy, Greene’s on West Africa and Pritchett’s on Spain.” –New Statesman
“Naipaul travels with the artist’s eye and ear and his observations are sharply discerning.” –Evelyn Waugh
“Where earlier travelers enthused or recoiled, Mr. Naipaul explains. His tone is critical but humane, and he tempers his inevitable indignation with an admirable sense of comedy.” –The Observer
“Dazzling reportorial skills and a sharp historical mind.” –The New York Times
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A personal and emotional travel book from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
A personal and emotional travel book from the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.