Literary Occasions: Essays by V. S. Naipaul, introduced and edited by Pankaj Mishra [in AsianWeek]
26 Sep, by in Adult Readers, British Asian, Indian, Nonfiction, Repost, South Asian
Eleven essays capture almost a half-century of Nobel Prize-winning Naipaul’s literary life. The final essay, “Two Worlds,” which he begins and ends by invoking Proust, is the lecture he gave when accepting the Nobel...
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