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Literary occasions

Paperback • 2003 • English • 1. edition

Literary occasions

By V.S. Naipaul

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About the book

These 11 pieces charts more than half-a-century of personal inquiry into the mysteries of written expression and of fiction in particular. Here are the author's boyhood experiences of reading books and his first, youthful efforts at writing them. This collection also shows the early glimmers and evolution of ideas about the proper relation of particular literary forms to particular cultures and identities. Here, too, is Naipaul's famous comment on his putative literary forebear Conrad and, a les...Show more

Literary essays
Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers

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ISBN

9780330420242

Publisher

Picador

Published year

2003

Language

English

Edition

1

Original title

Literary occasions

Format

Paperback

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