The writer and the world : essays
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New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.
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Published
New York : A.A. Knopf, 2002.
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Book
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xv, 524 pages ; 24 cm
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English

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Includes index.
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For forty years V.S. Naipaul has been traveling and, through his writing, creating one of the most wide-ranging and sustained meditations on our world. Now, for the first time, his finest shorter pieces of reflection and reportage are collected in one volume. With an abiding faith in the redemptive power of modernity balanced by a sense of wonder about the past, Naipaul has explored an astonishing variety of societies and peoples through the many-sided prism of his own experience. Whether writing about the Muslim invasions of India, Mobutu's mad reign in Zaire, or the New York mayoral elections, he has demonstrated again and again that no one has a shrewder intuition of the ways in which power works, of the universal relation of the exploiter and the exploited. And no one has put forth a more consistently eloquent defense of the dignity of the individual and the value of civilization. Infused with a deeply felt humanism, The writer and the world attests powerfully not only to Naipaul's status as the great English prose stylist of our time but also to his keen, often prophetic, understanding.

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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)

Naipaul, V. S. 1., & Mishra, P. (2002). The writer and the world: essays (First edition.). A.A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Naipaul, V. S. 1932- and Pankaj. Mishra. 2002. The Writer and the World: Essays. A.A. Knopf.

Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)

Naipaul, V. S. 1932- and Pankaj. Mishra. The Writer and the World: Essays A.A. Knopf, 2002.

MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)

Naipaul, V. S. 1932-, and Pankaj Mishra. The Writer and the World: Essays First edition., A.A. Knopf, 2002.

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