Viac o knihe
Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the "revolution", they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and spiritual impotence. Guerrillas depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. Place and people are evoked with an intensity unrivalled elsewhere. The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world's plight. 'Impeccable prose, precise, austere, modulating always from place to people to dialogue with a fastidious reserve. Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair' Observer
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Guerrillas, Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul
- Jazyk
- Rok vydania
- 2002
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- Titul
- Guerrillas
- Jazyk
- anglicky
- Vydavateľ
- Picador
- Rok vydania
- 2002
- Väzba
- mäkká
- Počet strán
- 200
- ISBN10
- 0330487132
- ISBN13
- 9780330487139
- Série
- Štítky
- Beletria, Klasika, Politika, Darčeky pre dedka, Afrika, Násilie, Nobelova cena, Chudoba, Revolúcia, Karibik, Černosi, Slumy
- Pôvodný názov
- Guerillas
- Hodnotenie
- 3,15 z 5
- Anotácia
- Set on a troubled Caribbean island - where Asians, Africans, Americans and former British colonials co-exist in a state of suppressed hysteria - Guerrillas is a novel of colonialism and revolution. A white man arrives with his mistress, an Englishwoman influenced by fantasies of native power and sexuality, unaware of the consequences of her actions. Together with a leader of the "revolution", they act out a gripping drama of death, sexual violence, and spiritual impotence. Guerrillas depicts a convulsion in public life, and ends in private violence. Place and people are evoked with an intensity unrivalled elsewhere. The novel comes with extraordinary force from the centre of a profound moral awareness of the world's plight. 'Impeccable prose, precise, austere, modulating always from place to people to dialogue with a fastidious reserve. Guerrillas seems to me Naipaul's Heart of Darkness: a brilliant artist's anatomy of emptiness, and of despair' Observer