An area of darkness
Naipaul, V. S. (, 1932-)
An area of darkness / V.S. Naipaul - Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books , 2002, c1964. - 290 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: London : A. Deutsch, 1964.
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darknessis Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker.An Area of Darknessalso abounds with Naipaul's strikingly original responses to India's paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.
9780375708350
2002447592
Naipaul, V. S. (, 1932-)
India----Description and travel
DS414 / .N23 2002
915.4 NAI
An area of darkness / V.S. Naipaul - Vintage Books ed. - New York : Vintage Books , 2002, c1964. - 290 p. ; 21 cm.
Originally published: London : A. Deutsch, 1964.
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darknessis Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker.An Area of Darknessalso abounds with Naipaul's strikingly original responses to India's paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.
9780375708350
2002447592
Naipaul, V. S. (, 1932-)
India----Description and travel
DS414 / .N23 2002
915.4 NAI
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