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100	1		_aNaipaul, V. S. _q(Vidiadhar Surajprasad) _d(, 1932-)
245	1	2	_aA writer's people _b: ways of looking and feeling : an essay in five parts _c/ V.S. Naipaul
250			_a1st North American edition
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, 2008
300			_a189 p. _c; 22 cm.
505	0		_aThe worm in the bud -- An English way of looking -- Looking and not seeing : the Indian way -- Disparate ways -- India again : The Mahatma and after.
520			_aBorn in Trinidad of Indian descent, a resident of England for his entire adult life, and a prodigious traveler, Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul has always faced the challenges of fitting one civilisation to another. Here, in his first book of nonfiction since 2003, he gives us an eloquent, candid, wide-ranging narrative that delves into this sometimes inadvertent process of creative and intellectual assimilation. He discusses the writers he read early on: Derek Walcott, Gustave Flaubert and his own father among them. He explains how Anthony Powell and Francis Wyndham influenced his first encounters with literary culture. He looks at what we have retained and forgotten of the world portrayed in Caesar'sThe Gallic Warand Virgil'sAeneid. He illuminates the ways in which the writings of Gandhi, Nehru and other Indian writers both reveal and conceal the authors and their nation. And he brings the same scrutiny to bear on his own life: his years in Trinidad; the gaps in his family history; the private India kept alive in his family through story, ritual, religion and culture; his ever-evolving reaction to the more complicated and demanding true India he would encounter for the first time when he was thirty. Part meditation, part remembrance, as elegant as it is revelatory,A Writer’s Peopleallows us privileged insightfull of incident, humor and feeling into the mind of one of our greatest writers.
600	1	0	_aNaipaul, V. S. _q(Vidiadhar Surajprasad) _d(, 1932-)
650			_aAuthors, Trinidadian _y-20th century _v--Biography
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