Parametre
- 224 stránok
- 8 hodin čítania
Viac o knihe
In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.
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Half a Life, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
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- Rok vydania
- 2002
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- Titul
- Half a Life
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Vydavateľ
- National Geographic Books
- Rok vydania
- 2002
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 224
- ISBN10
- 037570728X
- ISBN13
- 9780375707285
- Série
- Willie Chandran
- Štítky
- Beletria, Ezoterika & Náboženstvo, Historické romány, Náboženstvo, Nemecko, Anglicko, Život, Sexualita & Intimita, Veľká Británia, Afrika, Berlín, Londýn, India, Útek, Identita, Nobelova cena, Hinduizmus, Povojnove obdobie, Portugalsko, Kolonializmus, Vydedenec
- Hodnotenie
- 3,25 z 5
- Anotácia
- In a narrative that moves with dreamlike swiftness from India to England to Africa, Nobel Laureate V. S. Naipaul has produced his finest novel to date, a bleakly resonant study of the fraudulent bargains that make up an identity. The son of a Brahmin ascetic and his lower-caste wife, Willie Chandran grows up sensing the hollowness at the core of his father's self-denial and vowing to live more authentically. That search takes him to the immigrant and literary bohemias of 1950s London, to a facile and unsatisfying career as a writer, and at last to a decaying Portugese colony in East Africa, where he finds a happiness he will then be compelled to betray. Brilliantly orchestrated, at once elegiac and devastating in its portraits of colonial grandeur and pretension, Half a Life represents the pinnacle of Naipaul's career.