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- 400 stránek
- 14 hodin čtení
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Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh fruitlessly seeking El Dorado in the New World; the foppish nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who in his quest to liberate South America becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded--and eventually martyred--in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to V.S. Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance--and ours. -- Back cover
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A Way in the World, V. S. Naipaul
- Jazyk
- Rok vydání
- 1995
- Vazba
- (měkká)
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- Titul
- A Way in the World
- Podtitul
- A Novel
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Autoři
- V. S. Naipaul
- Vydavatel
- Vintage
- Rok vydání
- 1995
- Vazba
- měkká
- Počet stran
- 400
- ISBN10
- 0679761667
- ISBN13
- 9780679761662
- Série
- Kategorie
- Štítky
- Historické téma, Životopisy, Dobrodružství, Detektivky, Filosofická tématika, Láska, Současná literatura, Politika, Války, 20. století, Vzdělávání & školství, Škola, Příběhy, Britská literatura, Anglie, Afrika, Anglická literatura, Žurnalistika, Politické teorie, Psaní, Kultura, Rasa, rasismus, Satira, Magický realismus, Nobelova cena, Revoluce, Socialismus, Vláda, Geopolitika, Politická filozofie, Světová politika, Portugalština, Ocenění
- Anotace
- Spanning continents and centuries and defying literary categories, A Way in the World tells intersecting stories whose protagonists include the disgraced and half-demented Sir Walter Raleigh fruitlessly seeking El Dorado in the New World; the foppish nineteenth-century insurgent Francisco Miranda, who in his quest to liberate South America becomes entangled in his own fantasies and borrowed ideas; and the doomed Blair, a present-day Caribbean revolutionary stranded--and eventually martyred--in East Africa. Among these presences is a narrator who bears a telling resemblance to V.S. Naipaul himself: a Trinidadian writer of Indian ancestry and English residence boldly trying to come to terms with the mystery and transience that is his inheritance--and ours. -- Back cover