An Area of Darkness
- 267 stránek
- 10 hodin čtení
This travel book looks at the scenes and sites of India, as well as providing an account of the personality of the author himself.
Indická trilogie Série
Tato trilogie se noří do složitého světa postkoloniální Indie prostřednictvím očí nositele Nobelovy ceny. Zkoumá kulturní identity, historické dopady a osobní cesty v zemi protikladů. Čtenáři se mohou těšit na pronikavé postřehy a bohatou tapisérii lidských zkušeností.
Doporučené pořadí čtení
In 1975, at the height of Indira Gandhi’s “Emergency,” V. S. Naipaul returned to India, the country his ancestors had left one hundred years earlier. Out of that journey he produced this concise masterpiece: a vibrant, defiantly unsentimental portrait of a society traumatized by centuries of foreign conquest and immured in a mythic vision of its past. Drawing on novels, news reports, political memoirs, and his own encounters with ordinary Indians–from a supercilious prince to an engineer constructing housing for Bombay’s homeless–Naipaul captures a vast, mysterious, and agonized continent inaccessible to foreigners and barely visible to its own people. He sees both the burgeoning space program and the 5,000 volunteers chanting mantras to purify a defiled temple; the feudal village autocrat and the Naxalite revolutionaries who combined Maoist rhetoric with ritual murder. Relentless in its vision, thrilling in the keenness of its prose, India: A Wounded Civilization is a work of astonishing insight and candor.
India
- 624 stránek
- 22 hodin čtení
V.S. Naipaul s fascinating account of his journey around India approaches this shifting, changing land from a variety of perspectives. Through interviews with people from many different walks of life, he builds an oral history of a country constantly on t