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A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.
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The Mimic Men, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2001
- Väzba
- (mäkká)
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- Titul
- The Mimic Men
- Podtitul
- A Novel
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Vydavateľ
- Vintage
- Rok vydania
- 2001
- Väzba
- mäkká
- ISBN10
- 0375707174
- ISBN13
- 9780375707179
- Série
- Štítky
- Náučná literatúra, História, Súčasná literatúra, Politika, 20. storočie, Nobelova cena, Indická literatúra
- Pôvodný názov
- The mimic man
- Hodnotenie
- 3,2 z 5
- Anotácia
- A profound novel of cultural displacement, The Mimic Men masterfully evokes a colonial man’s experience in a postcolonial world. Born of Indian heritage and raised on a British-dependent Caribbean island, Ralph Singh has retired to suburban London, writing his memoirs as a means to impose order on a chaotic existence. His memories lead him to recognize the paradox of his childhood during which he secretly fantasized about a heroic India, yet changed his name from Ranjit Kripalsingh. As he assesses his short-lived marriage to an ostentatious white woman, Singh realizes what has kept him from becoming a proper Englishman. But it is the return home and his subsequent immersion in the roiling political atmosphere of a newly self-governed nation that ultimately provide Singh with the necessary insight to discover the crux of his disillusionment.