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- catalog abstract ""In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer. He pays particular attention to the traumas of India under its various conquerors and the painful sense of dereliction and loss that shadows writers' attempts to capture the country and its people in prose." "Naipaul's reflections on the relations between personal or historical experience and literary form, between the novel and the world, reveal how he came to discover both his voice and the subjects of his writing, and how he learned to turn sometimes to fiction, sometimes to the travel narrative, to portray them truthfully. Along the way he offers insights into the novel's prodigious development as a form for depicting and interpreting society in the nineteenth century and its diminishing capacity to do the same in the twentieth - a task that, in his view, passed to the creative energies of the early cinema."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog alternative "Reading and writing".
- catalog contributor b11605177.
- catalog created "2000.".
- catalog date "2000".
- catalog date "2000.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "2000.".
- catalog description ""In this essay of literary autobiography, V. S. Naipaul sifts through memories of his childhood in Trinidad, his university days in England, and his earliest attempts at writing, seeking the experiences of life and reading that shaped his imagination and his growth as a writer. He pays particular attention to the traumas of India under its various conquerors and the painful sense of dereliction and loss that shadows writers' attempts to capture the country and its people in prose." "Naipaul's reflections on the relations between personal or historical experience and literary form, between the novel and the world, reveal how he came to discover both his voice and the subjects of his writing, and how he learned to turn sometimes to fiction, sometimes to the travel narrative, to portray them truthfully. Along the way he offers insights into the novel's prodigious development as a form for depicting and interpreting society in the nineteenth century and its diminishing capacity to do the same in the twentieth - a task that, in his view, passed to the creative energies of the early cinema."--BOOK JACKET.".
- catalog description "Reading and Writing -- The Writer in India.".
- catalog extent "64 p. ;".
- catalog hasFormat "Reading & writing.".
- catalog identifier "0940322382 (alk. paper)".
- catalog isFormatOf "Reading & writing.".
- catalog issued "2000".
- catalog issued "2000.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "New York : New York Review of Books,".
- catalog relation "Reading & writing.".
- catalog spatial "England".
- catalog spatial "Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad".
- catalog spatial "Trinidad".
- catalog subject "823/.914 B 21".
- catalog subject "Authors, Trinidadian 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "East Indians Trinidad Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "East Indians Trinidad and Tobago Trinidad Social life and customs.".
- catalog subject "Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- Authorship.".
- catalog subject "Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932- Books and reading.".
- catalog subject "Naipaul, V. S. (Vidiadhar Surajprasad), 1932-".
- catalog subject "PR9272.9.N32 Z47 2000".
- catalog subject "Trinidadians England Biography.".
- catalog tableOfContents "Reading and Writing -- The Writer in India.".
- catalog title "Reading & writing : a personal account / V.S. Naipaul.".
- catalog title "Reading and writing".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".