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In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.
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Half a Life, V. S. Naipaul
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 2002
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- Titul
- Half a Life
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- V. S. Naipaul
- Vydavatel
- National Geographic Books
- Rok vydání
- 2002
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 224
- ISBN10
- 037570728X
- ISBN13
- 9780375707285
- Série
- Willie Chandran
- Štítky
- Beletrie, Duchovní literatura, Historické romány, Náboženství, Německo, Anglie, Život, Sexualita & Intimita, Velká Británie, Afrika, Berlín, Londýn, Indie, Útěk, Identita, Nobelova cena, Hinduismus, Poválečná doba, Portugalsko, Kolonialismus, Vyděděnec
- Hodnocení
- 3,25 z 5
- Anotace
- In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.