Journey Through Darkness: The Writing of V.S. NaipaulStudie over het werk van de West-Indische schrijver Vidiadhar Surajprasad Naipaul (9132- ). |
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Page 68
... Land of Calypso is not a copy - writer's phrase . It is one side of the truth , and it was this gaiety , so inexplicable to me who had remembered it as the land of failures , which now , on my return , assaulted me " ( MP 54 ) . The two ...
... Land of Calypso is not a copy - writer's phrase . It is one side of the truth , and it was this gaiety , so inexplicable to me who had remembered it as the land of failures , which now , on my return , assaulted me " ( MP 54 ) . The two ...
Page 86
... land had ceased to exist . Now it was so ordinary . I did not really want to see more . I was afraid of what I might find , and I had witnesses I knew about those spires and was glad to see them . My grandfather ( had sought to re ...
... land had ceased to exist . Now it was so ordinary . I did not really want to see more . I was afraid of what I might find , and I had witnesses I knew about those spires and was glad to see them . My grandfather ( had sought to re ...
Page 170
... land had been studied , everything in it categorized , exalted into design . It was the special vision of men who knew no other land and saw what they had as rich and complete " ( FS 251 ) . All that the writer now sees and experiences ...
... land had been studied , everything in it categorized , exalted into design . It was the special vision of men who knew no other land and saw what they had as rich and complete " ( FS 251 ) . All that the writer now sees and experiences ...
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accept achieve African Area of Darkness attempt aware become believe Bend Biswas Biswas's Black Power Bobby chaos characters colonial corruption culture discovers Dorado dream El Dorado English European experience failure fantasy father fear feel Finding the Centre Ganesh George Lamming Guerrillas Hindu House human identity individual Islam island Jimmy Jimmy's journey Knights Companion London Loss Malik metropolis Middle Passage Miguel Street Mimic Mimic Men MimM Miranda Mystic Masseur Naipaul seems Naipaul's fiction Naipaul's writing narrator Negro never nonfiction novel novelist offer past political portrays postcolonial racial Ralegh Ralph Singh readers reality relationship reveals River Roche Salim Santosh satire seeks Seepersad Naipaul sense slave social society Spanish Stone story Suffrage of Elvira suggests theme things tion Trinidad Trinidadian truth Tulsis understanding V. S. Naipaul village violence vision vision of disorder West Indian words Wounded Civilization Yvette