The narrator tells the story of Ganesh, who rises from a lowly job as masseur to become a healer and then a powerful politician. Finally, he is corrupted and disgusted by the realities of the political life. This novel was the winner of the John Llewelyn Rhys Memorial Prize in 1958 and was made into a film in 2002.
Naipaul describes the effects of British, French, and Dutch colonialism on the history and culture of the Caribbean. Naipaul based his observations on a seven-month tour of the area, a grant from the
An astonishing piece of travel writing and a timely and insightful analysis of Islamic fundamentalism Among the Believers is V. S. Naipaul's classic account of his journeys through Iran, Pakistan, Malaysia and Indonesia; 'the believers' are the Muslims he met on those journeys, young men and women battling to regain the original purity of their faith in the hope of restoring order to a chaotic world. It is a uniquely valuable insight into modern Islam, and the comforting simplifications of religious fanaticism
Naipaul follows the fortunes of Mr Biswas, t he outsider who refuses to conform to the customs of his gra nder in-laws whose house he lives in. Finally finding a hous e of his own, he triumphs over t
Es ésta una obra de una sensibilidad, elegancia y humor excepcionales. por su visión del amor pleno y del amor frustrado, por su visión de las medias vidas que se viven plácidamente en el corazón de nuestro incansable mundo, la última novela de Naipaul proyecta la visión particular y propia del autor sobre otro aspecto de nuestra humanidad compartida.
A classic of modern travel writing, An Area of Darkness" "is Nobel laureate V. S. Naipaul's profound reckoning with his ancestral homeland and an extraordinarily perceptive chronicle of his first encounter with India. Traveling from the bureaucratic morass of Bombay to the ethereal beauty of Kashmir, from a sacred ice cave in the Himalayas to an abandoned temple near Madras, Naipaul encounters a dizzying cross-section of humanity: browbeaten government workers and imperious servants, a suavely self-serving holy man and a deluded American religious seeker. An Area of Darkness also abounds with Naipaul's strikingly original responses to India's paralyzing caste system, its apparently serene acceptance of poverty and squalor, and the conflict between its desire for self-determination and its nostalgia for the British raj. The result may be the most elegant and passionate book ever written about the subcontinent.
An elliptical, lyrical, vividly descriptive autobiographical account of what it''s like for an Indian writer from Trinidad to settle in the rural west of England. When Naipaul was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2001, the judges commented that THE ENIGMA OF ARRIVAL provides an "unrelenting image of the placid collapse of the old colonial ruling culture and the demise of European neighborhoods.''''
En Al límite de la fe , Naipaul se interna en cuatro países -Indonesia, Pakistán, Irán y Malasia- conversos al Islam, pero no árabes. Como otras obras del autor, puede considerarse libro de viajes y de relatos, en el que se entrelazan personajes y situaciones para formar un escenario fascinante. Segun propias palabras de Naipaul, no se trata de un libro de opinion, sino sobre personas, lo cual no le impide manifestar con bastante claridad su postura desfavorable hacia el integrismo islamico, si bien con la mirada a la vez fria y calida de quien, mas que juzgar, desea observar y conocer.
Una visión de la India hecha sin prejuicios ni sentimentalismos. No la habitual descripción de un país exótico sino una recreación de una sociedad compleja y contradictoria en la que la modernidad se teje sobre un fondo de solidas tradiciones.
Just 40, Ralph Singh--a disgraced colonial minister exiled from Isabella, the Caribbean island of his birth--writes his autobiography in a genteel hotel in a run-down London suburb. As always, Naipaul's concern is the ways in which an individual seeks to construct some kind of order in a politically and morally chaotic world. This is one of Naipaul's most profound investigations of colonial psychology and the consequences of imperialism.
