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V. S. Naipaul (1932–2018)

Autor(a) de A House for Mr Biswas

86+ Works 23,128 Membros 358 Reviews 79 Favorited

About the Author

Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul was born of Indian ancestry in Chaguanas, Trinidad on August 17, 1932. He was educated at University College, Oxford and lived in Great Britain since 1950. From 1954 to 1956, he edited a radio program on literature for the British Broadcasting Corporation's Caribbean mostrar mais Service. His first novel, The Mystic Masseur, was published in 1957. His other novels included A House for Mr. Biswas, A Bend in the River, Guerrillas, and Half a Life. In a Free State won the Booker Prize in 1971. He started writing nonfiction in the 1960s. His first nonfiction book, The Middle Passage, was published in 1962. His other nonfiction works included An Area of Darkness, Among the Believers, Beyond Belief, and A Turn in the South. He was knighted in 1990 and received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2001. He died on August 11, 2018 at the age of 85. (Bowker Author Biography) mostrar menos
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Obras de V. S. Naipaul

A House for Mr Biswas (1961) 3,434 cópias
A Bend in the River (1979) 3,177 cópias
Half a Life (2001) 1,492 cópias
In a Free State (1971) 1,116 cópias
The Enigma of Arrival (1987) 1,085 cópias
An Area of Darkness (1964) 843 cópias
India: A Million Mutinies Now (1990) 813 cópias
Miguel Street (1959) 759 cópias
The Mystic Masseur (1957) 700 cópias
A Way in the World (1994) 661 cópias
India: A Wounded Civilization (1977) 656 cópias
The Mimic Men (1967) 652 cópias
Guerrillas (1975) 643 cópias
A Turn in the South (1989) 573 cópias
Magic Seeds (2004) 559 cópias
Literary Occasions: Essays (2003) 281 cópias
The Return of Eva Peron (1980) 256 cópias
Finding the Center (1984) 198 cópias
The Suffrage of Elvira (1958) 187 cópias
A Flag on the Island (1967) 113 cópias
Collected Short Fiction (2011) 101 cópias
The Overcrowded Barracoon (1807) 85 cópias
Vintage Naipaul (2004) 34 cópias
The Indian Trilogy (2016) 11 cópias
The Suffrage of Elvira (1964) 3 cópias
Sem título 2 cópias
Sacrifices (1992) 2 cópias
A Curva do Rio 1 exemplar(es)
Sem título 1 exemplar(es)
Dolore (2021) 1 exemplar(es)
QYTETI BRI LUMIT 1 exemplar(es)
THE MIMIC MAN 1 exemplar(es)
The Writer and the World 1 exemplar(es)
Blant de troende 1 exemplar(es)
B. Wordsworth 1 exemplar(es)
V ohybu řeky 1 exemplar(es)
Bim 1 exemplar(es)
The painter of signs 1 exemplar(es)
La fin du roman 1 exemplar(es)
Mati Mere Desh Ki (Hindi Edition) (2005) 1 exemplar(es)
Aastha Ke Paar (2007) 1 exemplar(es)
“One Out of Many” 1 exemplar(es)
Half A Life 1 exemplar(es)

Associated Works

Points of View: Revised Edition (1966) — Contribuinte — 411 cópias
The Best of Modern Humor (1983) — Contribuinte — 291 cópias
Granta 57: India! The Golden Jubilee (1997) — Contribuinte — 202 cópias
Black Water 2: More Tales of the Fantastic (1990) — Contribuinte — 152 cópias
The Norton Book of Personal Essays (1997) — Contribuinte — 142 cópias
The Norton Book of Travel (1987) — Contribuinte — 110 cópias
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 (2006) — Contribuinte — 72 cópias
The Picador Book of Journeys (2001) — Contribuinte — 53 cópias
Trinidad Noir: The Classics (2017) — Contribuinte — 37 cópias
Antaeus No. 61, Autumn 1988 - Journals, Notebooks & Diaries (1988) — Contribuinte — 34 cópias
Into the Widening World: International Coming-of-Age Stories (1995) — Contribuinte — 28 cópias
One World of Literature (1992) — Contribuinte — 24 cópias
Naar huis (1994) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias
The Faber Book of Contemporary Caribbean Short Stories (1990) — Contribuinte — 16 cópias
Bombay: Gateway of India (1994) — Conversation with — 14 cópias
Enjoying Stories (1987) — Contribuinte — 2 cópias

Etiquetado

20th century (306) Africa (397) anthology (171) autobiography (68) British (95) British literature (138) Caribbean (391) Caribbean literature (207) colonialism (102) England (75) English (91) English literature (170) essays (299) fiction (2,313) history (259) humor (115) India (611) Indonesia (73) Islam (351) literature (464) memoir (126) Naipaul (136) Nobel (132) Nobel Laureate (123) Nobel Prize (247) non-fiction (486) novel (539) postcolonial (79) read (110) religion (201) Roman (109) short stories (221) to-read (942) travel (669) travel writing (74) Trinidad (405) Trinidad and Tobago (75) unread (148) V.S. Naipaul (149) writing (68)

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Discussions

British Author Challenge May 2021: Na'ima B. Robert & V. S. Naipaul em 75 Books Challenge for 2021 (Dezembro 2021)
May 2014: V. S. Naipaul em Monthly Author Reads (Setembro 2018)
V. S. Naipaul 1932 - 2018 em 1001 Books to read before you die (Agosto 2018)

Resenhas

Clearly for me, the best novel of Naipaul's I've read. Often allusive, meaning the reader must wait for situations and relationships to resolve themselves. Beautiful writing that illuminates the writer's serious attempt to look as honestly as he can at how his origins shaped the course of his first forty years. Naipaul's stance is that a colonial background and society will never fully allow its people to function as a thriving entity.
At the end the writer, as he sets down his memoir, sees a personal resolution in withdrawal from political and familial ambitions.
"It gives me joy to find that in so doing I have also fulfilled the fourfold division of life prescribed by our Aryan ancestors. I have been student, house-holder and man of affairs, recluse...
Yet I feel that in this time (his life to date) I have cleared the decks, as it were, and prepared myself for fresh action."
And so he did. This was Naipaul's second novel. Huge success for him was to follow.
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ivanfranko | outras 7 resenhas | Mar 2, 2024 |
Extremely well written but as in any story it chooses fo omit many aspects that would make his story harder to tell. The perspective on many different societies is to identify their “backward” adaptations due to impact of a certain conservative culture. But as I read i could not help myself from being able to tell nearly the same story either: filtering the equivalent toward western society parallel culture, or looking at situations in which this backward culture can allow some societies to survive global forces that could tear them apart.

Naipaul presents a convincing picture that is lacking in imagination with his implicit judgement.
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yates9 | outras 13 resenhas | Feb 28, 2024 |
How to describe this book? It wasn't a hard read at all, but it was a bit tedious (for me) before all was said and done. The juxtaposition of Mr. Biswas's insecurity and pomposity, the petty intrigues of the Tulsi family, the graphic depiction of the Hindu poor in Trinidad in the early 20th century are the stars of the novel. Mohun Biswas was not a likeable character, but somehow I liked him in spite of himself. His early tribulations were not of his making, but many of his later ones were. He tried so hard to establish an identity free of all the noise around him, but in the end, the identity he established was not really accepted by anyone. He was always on the outside looking in and he never really liked what he saw. Having a house of his own was the only way he could assert himself in a world that was often out of his control. The home he finally got was as full of eccentricities and issues and problems as Mr. Biswas himself was, but somehow he found comfort with it and achieved a modicum of happiness. Beautiful writing, but damn I really like a real plot and this wasn't it. I don't regret the time it took to read it, but I can't say that it was my cup of tea.… (mais)
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AliceAnna | outras 66 resenhas | Feb 4, 2024 |
Before Christopher Hitchens, V.S. Naipal wrote the great de-bunker of organized religion. This is it.
 
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MylesKesten | outras 13 resenhas | Jan 23, 2024 |

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Obras
86
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Membros
23,128
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358
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