Download or read book A brush with Mr Naipaul written by Suresh Subrahmanyan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Suresh Subrahmanyan draws freely from his life experiences to present this compendium of acutely observed columns. His métier, humour and satire, and his abiding love for the English language, resonate on every page. He delves nostalgically into his childhood, ruminating on, among other things, boarding school escapades and a wide spectrum of music that saturates his life. He paints a vivid portrait of India’s contrariness with a light brush, warts and all. Politics, sport, the arts, current affairs and selective autobiography – they are all grist to the author’s mill. As he himself says, ‘I write for fun. If the reader is amused, it’s a bonus’. Suresh Subrahmanyan is refreshingly different from others of his ilk. He is known for his eclectic tastes, partial to wit and satire, a cricket tragic (in Aussie parlance) and an aficionado of music of varied genres. Small wonder that he has been a regular columnist in leading newspapers. His writings, covering a wide range of subjects, come as a breath of fresh air. This delightfully humorous collection of his choicest columns, impeccably written, will lift the reader’s spirits. N. Murali Chairman, Kasturi and Sons Ltd (Holding company of The Hindu Group) and President, The Music Academy
Download or read book I write therefore I am written by Suresh Subrahmanyan and published by Notion Press. This book was released on 2022-02-22 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is second volume of reminiscences and reflections. There is no subject under the sun that does not come under his genial, ironic and satirical gaze. Nostalgia and current affairs are dealt with in a serenely personal and free-flowing style, displaying a deep and abiding love for the English language. For the reader, there is something to dip into and find relevant, even at a random flipping-through of the pages. This is a book to be kept by your bedside and referred to whenever you’re feeling low. Your spirits will surely rise.
Download or read book A House for Mr Biswas written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-10-20 with total page 671 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Nobel Prize-winning author: an unforgettable comedy of manners inspired by the author's father that has been hailed as one of the twentieth century's finest novels. “A marvelous prose epic that matches the best nineteenth-century novels for richness of comic insight and final, tragic power.” —Newsweek In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous—and endless—struggle to weaken their hold over him and purchase a house of his own. A heartrending, dark yet comedic novel, A House for Mr. Biswas masterfully evokes a man’s quest for autonomy against an emblematic post-colonial canvas.
Download or read book V S Naipaul written by Suman Gupta and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1999 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An up-to-date critical survey of all Naipaul's major work giving a cohesive view of his artistic development.
Download or read book A House for Mr Biswas written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2012-11-13 with total page 708 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his forty-six short years, Mr. Mohun Biswas has been fighting against destiny to achieve some semblance of independence, only to face a lifetime of calamity. Shuttled from one residence to another after the drowning death of his father, for which he is inadvertently responsible, Mr. Biswas yearns for a place he can call home. But when he marries into the domineering Tulsi family on whom he indignantly becomes dependent, Mr. Biswas embarks on an arduous -- and endless -- struggle to weaken their hold over him, and purchase a house of his own.
Download or read book India Related Naipaul written by Rabindra Nath Sarkar and published by Sarup & Sons. This book was released on 2004 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul, b. 1932, Trinidadian writer of Indian origin and Nobel Prize winner.
Download or read book Collected Short Fiction of V S Naipaul written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Everyman's Library. This book was released on 2011-04-12 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the first time: the Nobel Prize-winning author’s stunning short fiction collected in one volume, with an introduction by the author. • “Naipaul is the world’s writer, a master of language and perception.” —The New York Times Book Review Over the course of his distinguished career, V. S. Naipaul has written a remarkable array of short fiction that moves from Trinidad to London to Africa. Here are the stories from his Somerset Maugham Award–winning Miguel Street, in which he takes us into a derelict corner of Trinidad’s capital to meet, among others, Man-Man, who goes from running for public office to staging his own crucifixion. The tales in A Flag on the Island, meanwhile, roam from a Chinese bakery in Trinidad to a rooming house in London. And in the celebrated title story from the Booker Prize– winning In a Free State, an English couple traveling in an unnamed African country discover, under a veneer of civilization, a landscape of squalor and ethnic bloodletting. No writer has rendered our postcolonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face.
Download or read book Mr Naipaul s Round Trip and Other Essays written by T. G. Vaidyanathan and published by Penguin Books. This book was released on 2003 with total page 261 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author, TGV to his friends and students, taught literature and film criticism, played first division cxricket and thought the world was his subject. This book collects some of his best writings on literature, culture, film and cricket. In his essays on literature and culture, he displays his remarkable ability to take an apperently insignificant fact and use it to highlight matters of wider cultural import. His essays on cricket are a riotous celebration of the game and its heroes as well as of the people he shared his love with. From dictionaries to umbrellas, to the stainless steel culture sweeping Madras, here is a truly eclectic selection of subjects, brilliant, eccentric, original and thought provoking, this book is certain to entertain and educate.
Download or read book V S Naipaul and World Literature written by Vijay Mishra and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-31 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book engages with Naipaul's literary corpus and reconceptualizes what it means to be a writer of world literature.
Download or read book Openings Outings written by David and published by Encounter Books. This book was released on 2022-06-07 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Openings & Outings brings together over forty pieces from the long and distinguished career of the writer and commentator David Pryce-Jones. Taking us from a meeting with Rudolf Hess’s widow, to the slums of Tangier, to the front lines of the Israeli–Palestinian conflict, with many stops in between, Openings & Outings presents over fifty years of insight, from a writer with endless scope and perspective.
Download or read book V S Naipaul Displacement and Autobiography written by Judith Levy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-08-20 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Originally published in 1995. V. S. Naipaul, a Trinidadian of Indian descent living in the West, has written in many forms. Through an analysis of five works by Naipaul written in different modes and periods of his life, this study posits a relationship between a cultural condition and a choice of genre and narrative, or more specifically between cultural displacement and the writing of autobiography. Examining an aspect of Naipaul’s development as a post-colonial writer, this book is of interest in exploring the way that concepts of self determine the writing of texts. It considers ‘deflected autobiographies’, genre boundaries, quests for origin and expression, and Lacanian psychoanalytic theory.
Download or read book V S Naipaul s A House for Mr Biswas written by Arunoday Mukherjee and published by . This book was released on 2014-08-01 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A House for Mr Biswas written by V. S. Naipaul and published by Picador. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traditional Chinese edition of A House for Mr. Biswas by V. S. Naipaul. It is a story of Mr. Biswas's struggle for independence, but more importantly, it is his fight for dignity and a life with meaning. A House for Mr. Biswas is touted as Naipaul's finest novel. In Traditional Chinese. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.
Download or read book V S Naipaul A House for Mr Biswas written by Michael Thorpe and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 1985 with total page 43 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book V S Naipaul written by Paul Theroux and published by Africana Pub.. This book was released on 1972 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The World Is What It Is written by Patrick French and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-11-04 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first major biography of V.S. Naipaul, the controversial and enigmatic Nobel laureate: a stunning writer whose only stated ambition was greatness, in pursuit of which goal nothing else was sacred. Beginning in rich detail in Trinidad, where Naipaul was born into an Indian family, Patrick French skillfully examines Naipaul’ s life within a displaced community and his fierce ambition at school. He describes how, on scholarship at Oxford, homesickness and depression struck with great force; the ways in which Naipaul’s first wife helped him to cope and their otherwise fraught marriage; and Naipaul’s struggles throughout subsequent uncertainties in England, including his twenty-five-year-long affair. Naipaul’s extraordinary gift—producing, uniquely, masterpieces of both fiction and nonfiction—is most of all born of a forceful, visionary impulse, whose roots French traces with a sympathetic brilliance and devastating insight.
