A House for Mr Biswas. Ein Haus für Mister Biswas, englische Ausgabe
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A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.







A gripping masterpiece, hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels.
And Other Comic Inventions
A cultural history describing how folklore studies and the music industry helped to create a musical color line in the South, associating certain genres with particular racial and ethnic identities.
Like all of V. S. Naipaul's 'travel' books, encompasses amuch larger narrative and purpose: to judge the effects of belief (in indigenous animisms, the foreign religions of Christianity and Islam, the cults of leaders and mythical history) upon the progress of civilization
物語の核心に迫る、“グラン=パルス”終端まで攻略。150体以上の敵兵、シ骸、モンスターのパラメータ公開。LV.8までのクリスタリウムデータでキャラの成長も万全。巻頭ポスター&シートで全オプティマ・召喚獣を一挙紹介。
Was bedeutet es, in einer ehemaligen Kolonie zu leben?§Und wie lebt es sich als Kind von Einwanderern fernab der Heimat?§Diese Fragen bewegen V.S.Naipaul seit jeher, sie bestimmen auch sein Interesse für den afrikanischen Kontinent.
Mrs. Jansen, eine Frau mittleren Alters mit unbekannter Vergangenheit, lebt kurz in Paris. Ihr Leben ist geprägt von Alkoholabhängigkeit und dem Verlust ihres Sohnes. Der Roman thematisiert das innere und äußere Exil sowie das Gefühl der Wurzel- und Heimatlosigkeit, zentrale Motive in Jean Rhys' Werken.
Charting half a lifetime spent exploring the written word, these eleven articles include Naipaul’s boyhood experiences of reading books and his first youthful efforts at writing them; the evolution of his ideas about the extent to which individual cultures shape identities and influence literary forms; Naipaul’s observations on Conrad, his literary forebear; the moving preface he wrote to the only book his father ever published; and his reflections on his career, ending with his celebrated Nobel lecture ‘Two Worlds’. A remarkable companion piece to The Writer and the World, Naipaul’s previous volume of highly-acclaimed essays, Literary Occasions is a stirring contribution to the fading art of the critic, and a revelation of a life in letters.
Willie Chandran is a man who has allowed one identity after another to be thrust upon him. In his early forties, he joins an underground movement in India. When he returns to Britain, Willie encounters a country that has turned its back on its past and, like him, has become detached from its own history.